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The bar has some stairs where you could fall and break your neck. Do you need a government regulation outlawing stairs in bars? Bar furniture could break and i
by nickpp 9y ago
The bar has some stairs where you could fall and break your neck. Do you need a government regulation outlawing stairs in bars?
Bar furniture could break and impale you. Should the bar have a furniture-owning license where they need to learn how to maintain their chairs?
And absurd made up examples can go on...
- zaksoup 9y agohttps://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=interpretations&p_id=24960 https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_tab... Well... Also, let’s be clear that regulations about the bar for food quality you will commercially sell to others and what you do in your own home (the furniture example) is obviously a false comparison. Besides the OSHA case for handrails there is, in fact, rules and regulations around the quality of, for instance, mattresses and their potential for catching fire. Ultimately my point is that there is a clear and fundamental difference between regulating what you can sell commercially and what you do in your own home. In addition there is plenty of precedent (and good reason) for regulation that you used as some sort of straw man but in fact actively reduces injury and makes businesses more accessible and available to more customers.
- nickpp 9y agoYeah I remember California’s fire-retardant regulation, which turned out to be a carcinogen. More regulations solved that too. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cancer-linked-flame/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cancer-linked-fla...