Re:Proposed US Rule for Portable Generators Will Save Thousa...
by pdonis on Thursday September 07, 2023 @06:20PM
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> You're acting like it's a foregone conclusion that these systems will fail.
No, just that it's a risk that I would not choose to take for myself, but would be forced to take because of other people's irresponsibility if this regulation passes.
> In reality, they largely will be fine and may add marginal cost to each system.
Who gave you the right to make this tradeoff for me? Why can't you focus on the actual irresponsible people and figure out how to help them be less irresponsible? Why put a regulation in place that just gives them even less of an incentive to be responsible (because after all Big Brother is watching over them so they don't need to be)?
> It's just the burden we all have agreed to bare.
No, it's the burden that do-gooders have forced on the rest of us for no good reason, but simply because, in our current political system, they can.
No, just that it's a risk that I would not choose to take for myself, but would be forced to take because of other people's irresponsibility if this regulation passes.
> In reality, they largely will be fine and may add marginal cost to each system.
Who gave you the right to make this tradeoff for me? Why can't you focus on the actual irresponsible people and figure out how to help them be less irresponsible? Why put a regulation in place that just gives them even less of an incentive to be responsible (because after all Big Brother is watching over them so they don't need to be)?
> It's just the burden we all have agreed to bare.
No, it's the burden that do-gooders have forced on the rest of us for no good reason, but simply because, in our current political system, they can.