Writing a lot of things into the code because you expect people not to follow the code in all cases likely leads to people thinking that the code overregulates everything and thus isn’t really worth following when you can avoid it.
There’s also the key question of how much you want to pay for one human life via regulations. Many regulatory agencies have standards that require them to prove cost-effectiveness for regulations. They have to justify that they can protect human lives for a given price. Often the price of human life is in the order of 10 million $.
The International Residential Code is made by an NGO and not a government agency and thus I don’t think they have to provide any justifications for cost-effectiveness.
The right step might be to move the authority for a code to a federal agency that has to justify its safety decisions on the basis of cost-effectiveness and that can be sued if they overreach.
Am I right in thinking that this comment is like, inspired by what I wrote but not particularly actually a reply to it?
Like I don’t think I suggested that one should write a lot of things into regulatory codes expecting people not to follow them; or that anyone is doing that; or even really brought up the idea.
So if you think I did bring up that idea then I’m bemused. But if you just read my comment and were like “oh that makes me think about the idea of writing a lot of things etc.”… well, that’s fine, but fwiw I find it more pleasant when such things are noted explicitly. As it is I find myself wondering if you’re trying to disagree with something I wrote, or agree, or tell me something you think is useful and relevant to me, or what.
(This also applies to your previous comment, where e.g. “this suggests cladding regulations are good” does not appear to be a reply to anything in thread. And fwiw I feel like I have this reaction to a lot of your comments.)
Writing a lot of things into the code because you expect people not to follow the code in all cases likely leads to people thinking that the code overregulates everything and thus isn’t really worth following when you can avoid it.
There’s also the key question of how much you want to pay for one human life via regulations. Many regulatory agencies have standards that require them to prove cost-effectiveness for regulations. They have to justify that they can protect human lives for a given price. Often the price of human life is in the order of 10 million $.
The International Residential Code is made by an NGO and not a government agency and thus I don’t think they have to provide any justifications for cost-effectiveness.
The right step might be to move the authority for a code to a federal agency that has to justify its safety decisions on the basis of cost-effectiveness and that can be sued if they overreach.
Am I right in thinking that this comment is like, inspired by what I wrote but not particularly actually a reply to it?
Like I don’t think I suggested that one should write a lot of things into regulatory codes expecting people not to follow them; or that anyone is doing that; or even really brought up the idea.
So if you think I did bring up that idea then I’m bemused. But if you just read my comment and were like “oh that makes me think about the idea of writing a lot of things etc.”… well, that’s fine, but fwiw I find it more pleasant when such things are noted explicitly. As it is I find myself wondering if you’re trying to disagree with something I wrote, or agree, or tell me something you think is useful and relevant to me, or what.
(This also applies to your previous comment, where e.g. “this suggests cladding regulations are good” does not appear to be a reply to anything in thread. And fwiw I feel like I have this reaction to a lot of your comments.)