[michaelt]

Seems to me a lot of people who support a regulation will be doing what the regulation calls for anyway - so they'll be subject to it, but it'll have no impact.

If I support banning alcohol, I probably don't drink alcohol myself. Hell, it'd be pretty hypocritical if I did.

(There are exceptions, of course - if I supported changing the side of the road we drive on, I'd wait for a change of law before acting on my beliefs!)