I have no interest in debating if it should be mandatory or not, thats another argument and not what this is about... again you misframed the opinion of those people, the fact that you disagree with them is fine, but not the point. Your dishonest representation of their argument is the point, if you had argued against their real argument from the get go (or at least not misrepresented the group) then i would have no problem with you making the argument, even if I feel it is wrong.