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So anyone should be allowed to open a business and experiment with possibly dangerous practices, some of which we know injured or killed people in the past, bec
by digitaltrees 8y ago
So anyone should be allowed to open a business and experiment with possibly dangerous practices, some of which we know injured or killed people in the past, because then more people would want to start businesses? Seems like the exact pattern we want to discourage.
I bet these founders opened this business as a corporation rather than in their individual capacities — meaning they were shield personally from the liability and consequences of their actions. Limited liability is a privilege extended to encourage risk taking, but it comes with a set of responsibilities to limit risky behavior to within norms we have, as a society, learned are beyond what we are willing to tolerate let alone encourage; these limits or responsibilities are called regulations.
By all means question the necessity of the specific regulation; their efficacy in avoiding the harm of food poisoning, but do so with fact based scientific methods. Don’t merely throw out any regulation unless you want to go back to a state of nature where anything goes.