Should we also make them fire proof, waterproof, tornado proof, airplane crash proof, alien invasion proof, deterioration proof, violent attack proof, sure it would be mighty safe, just no one would be able to afford it. Maybe we should just mandate that everyone have a force field around their house.
Its amazing the human race has survived for for thousands of years without these seemingly mandatory features.
Just because someone thinks something is a good idea doesn't mean it should be mandatory.
Yet buildings have been built for thousands of years without these features. Since you think they are a good idea they should be mandatory?
It wasn't that long ago that if someone wanted to go out and build themselves a house (log cabin or whatever) they could. Now one must navigate through a mountain of regulations before they can even lay the groundwork on a building they are paying for themselves?
If the government wants to do this with public buildings so be it, if a man wants to build a house out of tires, mud, logs, cardboard, whatever, that should be his business.
Dear leader has already screwed up the privacy between you and your doctor. The government is interferinging marriage.
Therein lies the difference between you and those of us who made America great. We want freedom for all, not just ourselves. We don't have to necessarilky agree with something to think the government should keep their hands off our rights. Once a government starts taking, it's damn hard to get it to stop. That's what Canada is dealing with.
Actually, your concept of freedom more resembles the Middle Age, not a modernvage. When your right to vote is no longer of convenience to the government, they'll take that from you, too and you'll just sit back and let them do it. Why? Because you value differently, in that you place less value on it.
I could see doing this on public buildings, but to require it on private homes is over the line.
One place told me that there was already the maximum amount of booze in the long island prepared mix in one drink. They actually pour it from a bottle that says LONG ISLAND TEA on it instead of pouring each shot individually the way they do here. A different place told me that they could do a double - although they said this like it was suppose to be a secret - and to tell the truth - I tasted no difference.
One other thing - we go to Stratford Ontario every year for a few plays and I noticed that they have to use some special stuff in place of fertilizer for the grass. And that is also by law. Now it could be that they want to avoid water contamination with fertilizer run off - so there might be a societal reason for that. But drinks and getting your burgers the way you want em - well, that hurts nobody but the consumer who ingests it.
We created our own rights and protect them, we place the maximum value we can as we created them, we see them as the foundation of our democratic and free society. The government cannot take them away they are entrenched and even if that fails we have courts and other means to protect them. If we do not place reasonable limits upon rights and freedoms they are abused and lose their true meaning and purpose.
The government took away your right to choose what door latch you can put in your own home, you can!t by a double Crown and Coke and you can't get your hamburger cooked the way you want...you'll gladly give up any right the government asks you too, without any resistance.
Yep, and if a person wanted a vegetable garden in their front yard they could do it, or a child could sell lemonade from the front lawn, or you could set up shop to cut people's hair without having to pay off the bureaucracy. But that was when we were free and uncivilized.
The government took away your right to choose what door latch you can put in your own home, you can!t by a double Crown and Coke and you can't get your hamburger cooked the way you want...you'll gladly give up any right the government asks you too, without any resistance.
Don't you really mean too much civilization?
There are building codes about the minimum and maximum heights for stair risers and the width of treads so that stairs can be negotiated by old and young in a predictable and safe manner.
Is that too much government as well, or would you much rather have the freedom to build an unstable and unsafe house?
Emergency exits, fire curtains, fire alarms, smoke detectors and fire extinguishers in a movie theater are mandatory because they save lives. Not having those life saving precautions is irresponsible idiocy, and there are idiots out there that wouldn't have those common sense measures in place if they wern't enforced.
Not if your using faulty and sub par construction materials and methods that are going to endanger my house if yours catches fire.Its MY house I should be able to build it as I like.
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The "proper precaution" is cooking ground beef until it's well done.
Not if your using faulty and sub par construction materials and methods that are going to endanger my house if yours catches fire.
More CON no-sense. The goverment also took away your 'right' to park near the store's door by putting in those pesky handicapped spots... :roll:
I'd say back in the 'good ol' days' you had no choice in doorknobs... they were all round :shock:
Poor CONs can't get drunker faster by buying doubles in public! The agony of that! Stay home and drink the Crown straight from the bottle!
You get LOTS of choices in hamburgers, just not raw... again in your own home eat that ground meat straight from the tube!
But the true CON no-sense is thinking IF ya can't get double alcohol in one glass or raw burgers you have given up a 'right'.
As CONs are quick to point out about other issues- show me where in the Constitution a restaurant must serve raw meat or a bar has to serve you liquor with a splash of mixer?
NO THING the CONs are ranting about are a right.... more a whim.
I am the consumer of the product, why shouldn't it be my choice to take the risk?
Insurance companies don't all have the same requirements. There are reasons why there are mandated standards in the construction of buildings. Building codes are to protect public health, safety and general welfare as they relate to the construction and occupancy of buildings and structures. Building codes have been around for thousands of years for good reasonActually their insurance that is if they had insurance would tell them to get these things, because the insurance doesn't want to pay out. Don't need much in the way of government.
Because your children don't have a say and we already decide that as a parent you have certain obligations to keep them safe/healthy. Also anyone who comes to visit will not know if you have built your house in a shoddy substandard way and you are putting their lives in danger as well. Again a something we have decided as a society that you really don't have the right to do.
having said that the doorknob thing is just plain dumb.
Insurance will do you a ****load of good when you and your family burn to death in your sleep because your built your house out of combustible building materials and decided that you didn't need those Orwellian smoke detectors.I dont live next to anyone. Its my fricken house, on my land. I could care less about you or your house. Perhaps you should have insurance, or YOUR house up to snuff, or better yet have fire suppression equipment built into it.
For a nation built on sovereign freedom, its become awfully pushy.
Insurance will do you a ****load of good when you and your family burn to death in your sleep because your built your house out of combustible building materials and decided that you didn't need those Orwellian smoke detectors.
Insurance companies don't all have the same requirements. There are reasons why there are mandated standards in the construction of buildings. Building codes are to protect public health, safety and general welfare as they relate to the construction and occupancy of buildings and structures. Building codes have been around for thousands of years for good reason
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