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> No one would sell insurance that would fix your already destroyed roof. But they will sell you homeowners insurance in areas prone to wildfires or hurricanes

by giaour 5y ago

> No one would sell insurance that would fix your already destroyed roof. But they will sell you homeowners insurance in areas prone to wildfires or hurricanes. The difference is that you are expected to know the amortized cost of disasters for your property and either insure against it or simply accept the risk. Either way, you as a homeowner are supposed to make an informed decision. If disaster is too likely to occur in a certain area, you can either move or not purchase a property in the first place. Science still hasn't figured out how to let us move into healthier bodies or choose our bodies prior to birth, so, alas, we are forced to seek fairness through other means.

com2kid 5y ago
> But they will sell you homeowners insurance in areas prone to wildfires And in areas with wild fires, tar roofs aren't legal for new construction! Roofs have to be built out of something non-flammable. Lessons to be learned perhaps.
- max599 5y ago
  Most of the building code is written with the blood of victims who died in a horrific accident. If you want to know why doors in public places have to open toward the outside in modern countries and why "panic bars" are often mandatory, the answer is large piles of dead children (literally). Depending on who you ask and the country they live in, they will refer to a different disaster, but the common element in all of them is 70 - 600 people stuck in hallways unable to escape due to bad exit designs (eg. people piling up against doors that open towards the inside).
  - notch656a 5y ago
    The unseen deaths are those who are unhoused or unsheltered due to building codes causing elevated building prices. Secondary effects (for those who can afford up-to-code) include less money to spend on healthy foods, good health insurance, quality child education, and other victimized children at the hand of building codes and other regulation. You can virtually ramp up building codes ad-infinitum, until the house is as safe as can humanly be built, if your expense is to hurt a lot of children by bankrupting families of expenses to take care of other necessities in life.

by giaour 5y ago

com2kid 5y ago

> But they will sell you homeowners insurance in areas prone to wildfires And in areas with wild fires, tar roofs aren't legal for new construction! Roofs have to be built out of something non-flammable. Lessons to be learned perhaps.

max599 5y ago
Most of the building code is written with the blood of victims who died in a horrific accident. If you want to know why doors in public places have to open toward the outside in modern countries and why "panic bars" are often mandatory, the answer is large piles of dead children (literally). Depending on who you ask and the country they live in, they will refer to a different disaster, but the common element in all of them is 70 - 600 people stuck in hallways unable to escape due to bad exit designs (eg. people piling up against doors that open towards the inside).
- notch656a 5y ago
  The unseen deaths are those who are unhoused or unsheltered due to building codes causing elevated building prices. Secondary effects (for those who can afford up-to-code) include less money to spend on healthy foods, good health insurance, quality child education, and other victimized children at the hand of building codes and other regulation. You can virtually ramp up building codes ad-infinitum, until the house is as safe as can humanly be built, if your expense is to hurt a lot of children by bankrupting families of expenses to take care of other necessities in life.