I call behavior and rhetoric like this "pointless defiance." I think it has a lot to do with using substances; I have friends in medical fields who tell me that substance abuse take years off one's mental age, and I think pointless defiance is one form of this.

Examples of pointless defiance are not wearing a mask, not evacuating in an emergency, not wearing a helmet, not putting one's children in a car seat. And then, substance abuse or not, some people just have the attitude that "Nobody tells me what to do." Such people don't care whether they are being ordered about arbitrarily or being told something that might save their lives.

When challenged, they don't talk about the dangers they face, they start talking about their "rights," including rights nobody ever heard of before, much less agreed to protect.