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“Protections” is a more concrete word indicating benefit rather than derisive “regulations,” which implies costs, burdens and barriers without a clear benefit.
by duelingjello 7y ago
“Protections” is a more concrete word indicating benefit rather than derisive “regulations,” which implies costs, burdens and barriers without a clear benefit. Paraphrasing an idiom from potentially-dangerous industries: Safety protection rules and laws are almost always written in blood.
- evgen 7y agoNo, that is only the case if you start from a particular viewpoint that is popular among right-wing Americans and almost no one else. From the perspective of first-world countries regulations are rules that we apply to processes where the dangers and externalities are diffuse enough that one or more parties may seek to ignore them for short-term gain; protection is the consequent of regulation, they are not simply synonyms.