Scott Hedrick wrote:

If a person want to live in a
: tar-paper shack, why shouldn't they be permitted to do so?

Because that shack could have an effect on a neighbor.


Such as?

Do you think

building codes are dumb?


Do you think the value of a code is determined by the number of rules?

Do you want to toss out the National Electric

Code and have any joker wire up his house the way he sees fit?


If that joker wants to live in that house, *why should his freedom to do so
be curtailed*?

A house not conforming to code can have effects on a neighbor. A badly
wired home is a fire hazard. Bad plumbing, a health hazard. I'd think
this was very obvious.



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