[JamesBarney]

If you die in a fire or building collapse it's equally bad whether that building was a large commerical building or a single family.

But we have two sets of building code rules because the regulatory burden is very different. The cost of complying with lots of regulation are fixed, and don't necessarily scale linearly with the size of the company. So to prevent these laws from wiping out small businesses they usually phase on these rules with increasing size.

[organsnyder]

Which locality are you talking about? Building codes vary quite a bit from one region to another. I'm pretty sure my municipality (Grand Rapids, MI, US) does not have differing commercial building codes based on the size of the organization utilizing the space.

[JamesBarney]

Not the size of the organization using the building but the size of the building.

[JamesBarney]

I wrote organization but I meant to write building

[rdlecler1]

False equivalency.

[JamesBarney]

Explaining why it's a false equivalency would be more helpful and create better discussion.