Is it “supremacist” to say you have wear pants in public or safely prepare the food you serve customers? Is it “authoritarian” to deprive you of the freedom to defecate in a public street, smoke in a restaurant, drive a car which doesn’t meet safety standards, or spray toxic chemicals on your property?

The answer, of course, is no because living in a society requires moderating your behavior when it affects other people. Those real examples also notably did not turn into the slippery slopes you’re trying to scare people with because public support isn’t unconditional – as we’ve seen, there are very real limits to what they can require and it involves significant public debate. Where real authoritarians do cause problems, it’s a misattribution error to say those problems are because they have health codes rather than correctly recognizing that an authoritarian government will manifest in all kinds of areas.