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There are very few costly mistakes that only affect you, though. I actually can't think of a single one. Emergency healthcare is a public resource (you can onl
by Retra 11y ago
There are very few costly mistakes that only affect you, though. I actually can't think of a single one.
Emergency healthcare is a public resource (you can only handle X patients per unit time) and it's a costly one. I would bet that most safety laws are forcing you to protect yourself by way of doing simple things that lower public medical costs. Even if you commit suicide, someone has to clean up your remains and deal with the potentially dangerous bio-materials.
Yes, you are free to do things that hurt only you, but good luck finding anything that does.
- nine_k 11y agoWhy, damaging or destroying your property, or entering an utterly disastrous but legal contract can be examples, both pretty wide categories.
- Retra 11y agoThere are limits on those things, though. You can't burn your house down. You can't live in filth. You can't strip mine your land or pollute it. And you can get thrown in jail for failing to fulfill certain contracts, so it can be indirectly illegal. There's also fraud: you can't lie to enter a contract you know you can't fulfill. And it should be illegal to exploit people by offering them contracts they can't be expected to fulfill, even if it currently isn't. Sure, I can just smash up my stuff or start a risky business. But the reason for that is that there isn't proof that what I'm doing constitutes failure. (They could be very educational activities.)
- saint_fiasco 11y agoJust be careful to dispose of what's left of your property in a proper fashion (some electronic components are dangerous for the environment if you just throw them with your other trash). Also, when you inevitably fail to uphold that contract, consider settling instead of fighting it in court to reduce costs to the justice system.