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There are no more coral snake antivenom manufacturers anymore because the regulations became more stringent and the company that made the only antivenom that was grandfathered in under the old rules decided it wasn't worth it anymore.

Realistic regulations are good because they prevent resource rich companies from externalizing their failures onto others.

Unrealistic regulations cause industries to give up on things that our population needs to survive.

For example, in the past if you got bit by a coral snake you could get antivenom. In the present, over ambitious regulation says that you die when you get bit by a coral snake. Because the alternative to death (using under regulated antivenom) is apparently worse?

If you want to you could regulate that cars run off of happiness and that their exhaust contains no pollutants. But the result would be that either everyone cheats on the tests OR that there would be no more cars. Including the trucks that bring us food and other useful products.

[wlll]

I mean, we're not talking about all regulations here, we're talking about the emissions regulations. Emissions that kill people.

So I don't really see the point of the coral snake thing, interesting though it is.

> If you want to you could regulate that cars run off of happiness and that their exhaust contains no pollutants. But the result would be that either everyone cheats on the tests OR that there would be no more cars. Including the trucks that bring us food and other useful products.

Well, I'm not suggesting that at all so again, not really relevant.

I'm suggesting that the emissions regulations that we have are fine. Cars can and do pass these without cheating so they're clearly not unrealistic.