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potato3732842 2 days ago

That's like saying "it's ok if I shit in the river, it's a big river". When a million other people do it you've got a water quality problem.

Each and every one of these regulations can in abstract, be justified by some useful idiot looking at only the first and second order inputs and outputs and not looking at the totality of the effects.

Nobody with a brain would defend shitting in the river, but here you are asking for individual turds so that they may be justified on the basis that the individual dropping them was relieved and their individual impact on water quality was minor.

scott_w 2 days ago | parent [-]

No it's not. Shitting in a river is always a net negative. Regulations can be positive, negative, or ineffective. Trying to "just count" the regulations to determine quality completely discards this critical dimension and betrays an almost childlike view of the world.

potato3732842 2 days ago | parent [-]

>Shitting in a river is always a net negative

It beats anything open air by miles. Sure, an outhouse would be better but river > street.

>Trying to "just count" the regulations to determine quality completely discards this critical dimension and betrays an almost childlike view of the world.

You're grasping at straws here. I am under no obligation to give such an infantile opinion (the one I initially replied to) a response at length. This is not the venue for such minutia.

scott_w a day ago | parent [-]

> I am under no obligation to give such an infantile opinion

Responding with “I know you are but what am I?” is just proving my point.