01-10-2018, 02:45 PM
(01-10-2018, 05:31 AM)Galen Wrote:(01-09-2018, 11:34 AM)David Horn Wrote: Of course, those regulations didn't just make themselves. They were imposed to correct a problem.
They were made by bureaucrats who do not never have to consider the consequences of the rules that they impose. They do not have to consider little problems like how much the pages of rules they churn out will cost because they get money by having the IRS hold a gun to everyone else's head. They also assume that every rule they make must exist forever even if the reason for it has long since ceased to exist.
Most regulations are made in response to active bitching by a few powerful or many average people. If I find it unacceptable to live on the abandoned site of a toxic waste dump like Love Canal, I'm going to be pissed-off enough to raise hell until it's made illegal. If I'm in the insurance business and get dinged constantly by injury or workman's compensation claims for workers falling off roof, ladders, trees or whatever (be creative!), I'm going to make similar demands for regulations too.
Which ones do you want to eliminate: only ones that don't risk your health, income or security? People used to die regularly from tainted food. Now it's rare and the bad actors are identified and punished. Crime used to be high, before regulations removed lead from paint and fuels. The list is endless.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.