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Ha! Thanks, I needed a laugh this morning. But seriously though, since when did Laissez-faire economics and legislation ever lead to sufficient safety not to k

• eru 4y ago
  Compare eg https://www.econlib.org/dont-regulate-health-and-safety/ https://www.econlib.org/dont-regulate-health-and-safety/ I did not suggest throwing out any existing regulation, merely that we don't need more regulation. Surely you can not argue that we need an infinite amount of more regulation? There must be some level that's enough?
• londons_explore 4y ago
  In the UK, only around 1 person per year is killed by electricity in the home. And often that person is doing something totally non-standard, for example building a tesla coil, or deliberately committing suicide. Contrast that to 250,000 deaths per year (in the USA) by medical mistakes or preventable adverse effects. At some point, we have to decide where to put our efforts. Electrical safety is arguably oversolved - ie. we put too much effort into it compared to the safety gain of any extra effort, compared to medical accidents which is likely undersolved. Even simple things like requiring a doctor to not do more than an 8 hour shift, like we require of truck drivers, would probably save a lot of lives. The idea of 'more safety is always better' needs to be broken.