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Originally Posted by jrc
Jmen and lawn pyscho seem to be ready to blindly let the government decide for them which safety features and codes are appropriate for them. I don't trust them.
Some rules are really needed, some are motivated by other issues like supporting industries, protecting trades, by misguided and outdated ecology, some by over-reaction to a single incident, by ignorance and some by politics.
Most are a cost vs benefit trade-off, I'm smarter than some government bureaucrat, I'll make the trade-off.
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I'm with you. Government rules and regulations forcing people to do things they would rather not, don't always make things better. For example, look at the BP mess, I can imagine they were loaded up with rules and regulations, but that awful spill still happened. (I don't want to start getting off topic by mentioning this, it is just and example.)