[Camouflager]

Regulations really don't work when you're dealing with adults. Anti-social behaviors cannot be regulated. That's actually the point of being anti-social.

Throughout history, every time you start to count on regulations, the whole thing falls apart pretty quickly. LOOK ELSEWHERE. We didn't have this much regulations 30 years ago and things were great.

[doctor_eval]

I don’t know what to say. 1993 was definitely not better than 2023.

The world moves forwards, three steps forward and two steps back. Human rights have progressed enormously since 1993 and that’s largely due to regulation. Deaths from smoking have been reduced. Deaths from car accidents have declined. Incredible, life changing drugs have been developed. And, of course, things have become worse in other ways. Wealth inequality being a very big one.

Things might have been great if you were healthy and wealthy in 1993, but I’d definitely not want to go back there.

[Camouflager]

Well you have a good point, I'll give you that.

Although you don't seem to understand the real reason you're living a "better" life: Someone (you or others) pays for it. Lives don't get better by regulation, they get better by hard work. The real reason smoking are less is because nice hard working people reach a consensus that smoking is bad. Not a genius that imposes regulation on smoking. Actually, if you don't offer alternatives for a nicotine addict (like a good life), regulation only makes them resentful and anti-social. So get your priorities straight.

[doctor_eval]

This makes no sense to me. Lives get better through many factors. Better knowledge. Better medicine. Better education. Better products. Greater shared wealth. And, ideally, better regulation.

I do not vote for governments who allow companies to sell dangerous goods to unsuspecting people for profit.

By all means let them sell dangerous products to informed people who know and accept the risks (I’m looking at you, Blast Aqua Park :). But regulation is needed because shitty companies do shitty things to people who don’t deserve it, don’t expect it, and are “encouraged” to have no idea about it.

There are always going to be bad actors who make the world worse. And, because of those people, we need regulation.

[Camouflager]

Great, now I got flagged. Someone is trying to regulate my words, because they feel uncomfortable. Funny I just predicted exactly that. The comment became recursive. Just like the self-fulfilling recursive personality structure of a narcissist.

[doctor_eval]

For the record, it wasn’t me.

Irony alert.

[Camouflager]

Not getting it. It's not about you anyway.

[Camouflager]

> Lives get better through many factors. Better knowledge. Better medicine. Better education. Better products. Greater shared wealth. And, ideally, better regulation.

Who pays for that? You don't sound like you're an active participant in producing any of that stuff. You sound like you're just an advocate for "more" regulation. How does that help? Don't you agree that bad regulations do more damage than a single bad actor? Like in Soviet Union?

Or it could just be that you're the bad actor in disguise, or you don't realise it yourself. Don't get me wrong here, but your mindset sounds like that of a young child, who wants to control everything, by "regulating" others' behaviour.

[harimau777]

I'm not sure that things were really great 30 years ago with respect to things that have been regulated. For example, greenhouse gas emissions and discrimination against LGBTQ people were both much worse than they are now. Just slightly more than 30 years ago (33 years) we didn't have the Americans with Disabilities Act so it was much more difficult for disabled people to get accommodations.