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From a more detached point of view, the question is whether law ought to be enforced irrespective of how it is violated. Many people would say yes.

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Vanishingly few would experience that detachment for anything they were personally involved with.

Possibly so, which is why decision-making is so often delegated to those who have no personal involvement.

This is how people get shipped to ovens.

"Just executing the law, bro"

In this case it would result in their being repatriated to their countries of origin. Usually these are ovens only in a figurative sense.

Well, let's not bring the Nazis into it. If you're deporting people to Syria or Somalia or some other dangerous place (which they sometimes have no memory of), it's quite bad enough.

Legal terms (like "country of origin") are abstractions that often hide what that consequences of a decision actually are.

If we applied that to driving laws, people would revolt. As long as people have a reasonable expectation to not be directly impacted, they usually don't care.

If we applied this to traffic laws, people would insist upon traffic laws that better reflect the way they wish to drive.

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