Scenario 1: You get fined if you refuse to expose your face.

Scenario 2: You get fined if you refuse to expose your face, and are rude about it.

I don't see how scenario 2 is worse than scenario 1: it seems obviously less bad. Now, maybe in fact it's

Scenario 1: You get fined if you refuse to expose your face.

Scenario 3: You get fined if you're rude to the police.

This comparison is more debatable, but I still prefer 3 to 1, because not exposing your face is a thing that has (so to speak) possible functional uses, so if you can't do it then you've lost something that could actually be useful to you, whereas being rude to the police -- which, for the avoidance of doubt, I do think people should be free to do -- isn't really something anyone has a particular need to do.

Again, I can understand why someone might prefer 1 to 3. But if my civil liberties are going to be gratuitously eroded, I'd prefer to lose ones whose value is only symbolic.