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The real problem here, however, is not ????? or ??? ???. The real problem is that this is a total rejection of the sanctity of ???. The more a person bends over backwards to circumvent the ????, the more he shows that he views ???? as an onerous burden to be cast aside at the first chance.
you are correct but the problem is assuming that this is the case. As I said above, not everyone was raised with the same understanding of sanctity of Shabbos.
Not everyone who drives an RV to a racetrack understands all the problems that have been clearly attributed to them above. I remember a couple friends who were in Indiana University and proud to be shomer shabbos yidden (only ones on campus wearing kippas despite being harassed for it). When the little indy race came on Shabbos, they pre-paid their tickets and submitted them in advance and went to the race empty handed thinking they were observing shabbos appropriately. They would have been insulted by your take of their observance level because they never learned any different. We were taught Shabbos laws very differently.