The difference is, when someone challenges you to provide an understanding why a fence was built, whether answers such as “because someone made a mistake” or “because of regulatory capture” or “because a bad person did it to harm someone” are allowed.
If a fence is build because of regulatory capture, it’s usually the case that the lobbyists who argued for the regulation made a case for the law that isn’t just about their own self-interest.
It takes effort to track down the arguments that were made for the regulation that goes beyond what reasons you come up thinking about the issue yourself.
“Someone made a mistake” or “because a bad person did it to harm someone” are only valid answers if a single person could put up the fence without cooperation from other people. That’s not the case for any larger fence.
When laws and regulations get passed there’s usually a lot of thought going into them being the way they are that isn’t understood by everybody who criticizes them. It might be the case that everybody who was involved in the creation is now dead and they left no documentation for their reasons, but plenty of times it’s just a lack of research effort that results in not having a better explanation then “because of regulatory capture”.
If a fence is build because of regulatory capture, it’s usually the case that the lobbyists who argued for the regulation made a case for the law that isn’t just about their own self-interest.
It takes effort to track down the arguments that were made for the regulation that goes beyond what reasons you come up thinking about the issue yourself.
“Someone made a mistake” or “because a bad person did it to harm someone” are only valid answers if a single person could put up the fence without cooperation from other people. That’s not the case for any larger fence.
When laws and regulations get passed there’s usually a lot of thought going into them being the way they are that isn’t understood by everybody who criticizes them. It might be the case that everybody who was involved in the creation is now dead and they left no documentation for their reasons, but plenty of times it’s just a lack of research effort that results in not having a better explanation then “because of regulatory capture”.