Do you disagree with the concept of a building code? Mandating how buildings are built to increase safety is the purpose of building codes.

There is a fundamental difference between building codes that enforce critical safety needs in order to clearly define negligence...

... and building codes that express someone's preference or taste for how something should be done.

For example, a building code that says all houses must be pink, or all houses must be made from wood, or all houses must use electric stoves, are only tangentially related to someone's opinion on safety at best.

Soda certainly doesn't meet drinking water standards. The same busy bodies banned it too!