A mental process that jumps from "end
of discussion" to blowing up the government is over the top.
If that were the connection, sure.
The building code is only one item. Sure, I could probably find out, with enough money and effort, who wrote the thing. Or maybe not -- I don't know of any law that requires the authors of codes to be disclosed. But even if I found out, so what? Maybe if I committed my lifetime to it I could get parts of the building code changed.
But it's just one example of the way in which government has overtaken individual freedoms.
If you see one carpenter ant in your house, you can do your best to kill it. And probably succeed, though if it's on the beam of the cathedral ceiling you may have to out and buy a ladder (have you ever seen the OSHA regulations on ladders, by the way? Dozens of pages.) to get to it, and if you have, as I do, a fear of heights you may be risking your health doing it. But still, with enough effort and money you can kill it.
But if you see a thousand carpenter ants in your house, it's not enough to spend the time and energy and effort to get to the top of the cathedral ceiling to kill one of them.
You need to do something systematic, not palliative. You need to use a (EPA approved, of course!) poison. Which may kill other insects at the same time, which you have nothing against but simply become "collateral damage."
But if you don't do something, eventually the ants will have eaten enough of the solidity and substance out of your beams and structual elements that one day your house will collapse and you, sleeping peacefully in your bed beliving you are safe, will be crushed to death.
Each individual ant in and of itself can be dealt with individually. But the mass, no.
The building code is only one (or a few) ants eating away at the structure of individual freedom. Attacking it is palliative, but does nothing to resolve the underlying systemic problem.
For that we need something that will shock the whole ant colony and kill enough of them that maybe what remains of the house can be saved. |
