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>"People not dying should be the priority." It already is, but like all things the costs and benefits must be weighed. You can prevent 100% of electrical fires

>"People not dying should be the priority." It already is, but like all things the costs and benefits must be weighed. You can prevent 100% of electrical fires by prohibiting buildings from having power.

2fast4you 5y ago
You can prevent people from dying in a house fire by just not having any homes either. Relaxing safety requirements is not the solution to housing crisis. At best it will just increase the divide. We're going to be packing people like sardines into the cheapest (and consequently most dangerous) "housing" we could build, while people who can afford the luxury live in homes built to modern safety standards. These regulations aren't created just for fun, they're created because people died. Let's not take a step backwards.
- com2kid 5y ago
  Right now shelters are so unsafe many people choose to sleep on the streets instead. I'm not saying roll building codes back 100 years. I am saying that cities are experiencing an extraordinary problem and we may need to start rethinking some of our fundamentals and sacred cows if we are going to solve these problems.
- hackerfromthefu 5y ago
  You can also prevent people from dying in a house by making the house too expensive that it's unaffordable for them.
- BitwiseFool 5y ago
  >"These regulations aren't created just for fun, they're created because people died. Let's not take a step backwards." Of course, and I realize that, I think we all do. The question, though, is at what point is a regulation more expensive than it is practical? It sounds heartless but some regulations don't seem worth the expense of how many lives it is designed to save. One of the reasons why the 4 prong outlet is required for dryers is because someone was changing the inner light bulb in the dryer and killed themselves because they didn't shut off power to the circuit. The regulation is meant to help prevent this in the future, but one has to wonder just how many people are actually being saved by this update. Especially when you personally have to shell out something like $750 to update your three prong outlet.

2fast4you 5y ago

You can prevent people from dying in a house fire by just not having any homes either. Relaxing safety requirements is not the solution to housing crisis. At best it will just increase the divide. We're going to be packing people like sardines into the cheapest (and consequently most dangerous) "housing" we could build, while people who can afford the luxury live in homes built to modern safety standards. These regulations aren't created just for fun, they're created because people died. Let's not take a step backwards.

com2kid 5y ago
Right now shelters are so unsafe many people choose to sleep on the streets instead. I'm not saying roll building codes back 100 years. I am saying that cities are experiencing an extraordinary problem and we may need to start rethinking some of our fundamentals and sacred cows if we are going to solve these problems.
hackerfromthefu 5y ago
You can also prevent people from dying in a house by making the house too expensive that it's unaffordable for them.
BitwiseFool 5y ago
>"These regulations aren't created just for fun, they're created because people died. Let's not take a step backwards." Of course, and I realize that, I think we all do. The question, though, is at what point is a regulation more expensive than it is practical? It sounds heartless but some regulations don't seem worth the expense of how many lives it is designed to save. One of the reasons why the 4 prong outlet is required for dryers is because someone was changing the inner light bulb in the dryer and killed themselves because they didn't shut off power to the circuit. The regulation is meant to help prevent this in the future, but one has to wonder just how many people are actually being saved by this update. Especially when you personally have to shell out something like $750 to update your three prong outlet.