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Quote by: MplsBison  Laws are not regulation.
Laws just provide a basis for a lawsuit, nothing more.
Regulation is paying government workers to go into factories and inspect/test things. |
And if you pass a law that says hamburger must be free of ecoli, how do you enforce that law if nobody tests the meat? If you say "no lead paint in toys", must you, again, wait for the deaths to have reason to test? Regulation and law enforcement are one and the same. Welcome to my team. Law = regulation because you have to test to enforce, law with no enforcement is no law, it is a set of rules on paper everyone ignores. There is also the distinction between Criminal and Civil law, which you seem to be missing. Law is not just about monetary punishment. It is about setting criminal penalties where they are warrented, like when you willfully endanger the lives of children because lead paint sells for X amount less per gallon and you place profit over life and health. Not just lawsuits, jail time. Inspection is necessary for the law to mean anything. What purpose does the other serve in the long run? Bean-counters come out of the woodwork, calculating the profit per unit sold v. the cost per unit in damages and figure out how to maximize profits while still ignoring public safety. Lawsuit, shmawsuit!