[AnthonyMouse]

It takes active work to do that but not to manually approve zillions of individual installations?

[kragen]

The zillions of individual installations probably aren't actually getting approved, manually or otherwise.

[AnthonyMouse]

Not if the purpose of the regulations is to thwart them, no. But those are the rules that ought not to be.

[kragen]

Purpose, ought, shouldn't, shouldn't, sense. These are words of minimal relevance to regulations and bureaucracy, which have internal incentive structures that rarely align with any kind of human morality.

[AnthonyMouse]

Suppose that it isn't literally impossible to affect what the rules are and then if we're going to attempt it we need to determine what they ought to be.

[kragen]

"Need."

[AnthonyMouse]

If you want the rules that exist and the rules that ought to exist to get closer together, do you not need to reckon what they ought to be?