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Nearly all regulation is to protect the public from something bad that someone did in the past. Why would you be against that?
by dd36 8y ago
Nearly all regulation is to protect the public from something bad that someone did in the past. Why would you be against that?
- donkeyd 8y agoBecause seatbelts, airbags, building codes and things like that are just a huge burden on society.
- _Schizotypy 8y ago/s Here you dropped this
- pc86 8y agoThere is the ideological argument that a lot of regulation comes out of Congress ceding its lawmaking authority to un-elected and largely unaccountable Executive branch officials. So it's not necessarily a desire that the regulation not exist, but that it come out of Congress so there are faces and names attached to it. And while some regulation is certainly a response to bad actors to say that "nearly all" of the tens of thousands of new pages of regulations written every year are that is going to need some sort of citation.
- Retra 8y agoBeing "generally against regulation" doesn't imply any specific mitigating rational as you would suggest. Being against poor, mishandled, or unnecessary regulation... yes. But if that was stated, there'd be nothing to argue with.
- pc86 8y agoIdeologically you can be "generally against regulation" because you think it's unnecessary, or because you think more optimal positions will come out of the free market, or because you think corporations having free reign to do whatever they want is not an inherently negative thing. Some of those seems more reasonable than others, of course.