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yeah it'd make sense if you disregard externalities.

i sure don't want the usb charger market to sort itself out by the metric of which products burn my house down faster.



The discussion was toy drones, not USBs.


does it make any difference to my point?


The assertion I responded to was that the only way to ensure "quality" was to support government regulation. I disagreed. Using the heavy hand of government to be sure that these toys don't break within a day is overkill. I suggested an alternative

Rather than argue against that specific point, people began arguing against another easier point: that government regulation protects us from dangerous things

While true, it's a distracting non-sequitur. Argue against what I said, not against a stupider argument that I did not say




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