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by drstewart 1927 days ago
If "by default" you mean starting from ground zero, that's an almost meaningless statement.

If the government passed a law requiring all housing to be be built to code to survive a magnitude 9 earthquake in a region where there are no earthquakes, and every house needs to be retrofitted, would you say the burden is low? After all, if you start from scratch without a house there is no requirement to do anything! And building a new house is much easier, after all!
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Kim_Bruning 1927 days ago
That would be fair enough.

But this is more like trying to explain why your attic has strengthened beams that were not on the original (default) architectural drawings, and gosh what are all those bags of white powder doing there?

The government doesn't even make it illegal, mind. You just need to explain why, if someone asks politely.

( https://goo.gl/maps/UgRPhuxfXoezDJHB9 so this business still wouldn't get in trouble. )

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