Comments on: Sick of Living At Home? Build A Small House

By: deezynar

deezynar — Fri, 13 May 2011 03:11:46 +0000

@penguinistas
Your argument is quite common but it fails to consider a very significant point, a house is not merely where you live, it’s also a product. No one spends all the time and money to build a house w/ the idea that they’ll tear it down when they decide to move. Everyone fully intends to sell it when they move on. Government regulates house construction mostly to protect the guy you sell to.

By: penguinistas

penguinistas — Fri, 13 May 2011 02:58:29 +0000

@deezynar You’re under the false belief that government can regulate anything it wants. The Constitution guarantees (as the declaration of independence says) that we have a right to life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness

Having been to Africa and seen the poverty: cities full of tin shacks, villages full of thatches huts, would you rob them of what little they have? That’s how tyrants talk, and it’s evil

I will defend everyone’s right to fight a government imposed view of what is a house

By: deezynar

deezynar — Fri, 13 May 2011 02:07:09 +0000

@penguinistas
In this case, government regulates construction because the citizens demand that it does.
Have you heard the old saying, “Your freedom stops at the tip of my nose”? If your house burns down & catches my house on fire, your crummy wiring job has become my business. Building codes have evolved because the public has demanded that government provide protection from shoddy construction. In some ways codes have gone overboard, but they do save lives & investments.

By: penguinistas

penguinistas — Fri, 13 May 2011 01:30:21 +0000

@deezynar I’ve never heard any credible evidence that shows that the public wants more government intrusion into their lives.

Where are the massive public demonstrations “demanding” more government control and intrusion? Remembering that government regulations created the housing crisis by forcing banks to loan money to people with bad credit, I doubt it.

The your house burning down affecting me argument is bogus. Should alcohol be illegal because drunk drivers kill 25,000 people annually?

By: penguinistas

penguinistas — Fri, 13 May 2011 01:23:47 +0000

@deezynar By your “It’s also a product” argument then it should be illegal for anyone who is not a certified mechanic to be able to fix their own car as they may fix their car wrong. And… as it’s also a product that can be resold, then by your argument, non-professionals should be banned from fixing their own cars too.

The same draconian argument can be made for any of any number of things than can be resold, thus you have subjected every citizen to government imposed slavery.

By: penguinistas

penguinistas — Fri, 13 May 2011 00:47:41 +0000

@deezynar As brought up the: your house burning down makes it my business theme, then we must regulate things like cooking, smoking and appliances.

Cooking is the leading cause of home fires. Should we license cooking?

I seems that “faulty wiring” fires are mainly from abused extension & power cords, not that the home wiring was poorly installed. Do we ban appliances?

And smoking goes without saying.

Unless your willing to regulate those things then safety is a justification not a reason.

By: deezynar

deezynar — Fri, 13 May 2011 00:29:36 +0000

@penguinistas
In my state a person can build their own house. They need to submit plans to show they intend to follow the codes & zoning laws. Then they get it inspected as they build to prove they are building it per plan.
I don’t know what other states allow.

By: deezynar

deezynar — Fri, 13 May 2011 00:11:27 +0000

@penguinistas
A house that’s built to code will be less likely to burn down from a stovetop fire.

By: deezynar

deezynar — Thu, 12 May 2011 23:55:41 +0000

@penguinistas
Have you heard about the Chicago fire, or the San Francisco fire? Read about them, you’ll see that the public was upset that fire could spread so fast and far.

By: penguinistas

penguinistas — Thu, 12 May 2011 23:16:35 +0000

@deezynar You are appealing to fires caused by earthquakes as a justification for government regulation???

Why???

Can the government “ban” earthquakes or fires caused by ruptured gas lines?

On the contrary, government regulations harm and kill people

For example, California residents have reported that the only reason wildfires DID NOT consume their home was because they cleared the area around their home as a fire break zone in blatant VIOLATION of environmental regulations.