First we're all akin to lawyers and doctors, now each software developer is effectively working to build an airplane... Everyone here seems to forget that we r

First we're all akin to lawyers and doctors, now each software developer is effectively working to build an airplane... Everyone here seems to forget that we regulate these industries so finely because they are in a uniquely dangerous position to harm people, and act as if this is a blanket statement that's true for any kind of software development. This is most definitely not true, and we should think hard and long before regulating a thriving industry out of the world in order to feel superior to all those rubes over there obviously doing it wrong. Regulation is a necessary evil, not a positive good in itself.