[Cob] building codes rant

[paul]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marlin Nissen" <marlin_nissen at yahoo.com>
To: <coblist at deatech.com>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Cob] building codes rant


> The more laws that you make,
> the greater the number of criminals.- paraphrasing from the Tao Te Ching
>

A law is something to beat, to outsmart, to defeat for profit.  It sets the 
rules, it defines the challenge, and if you're smart enough to go around the 
rules, you win.  That is the general idea of politics and law enforcement 
(aiding and abetting drug dealers.)

On the other hand, the wrong end of a shotgun is not like a rule to get 
around.

Now if that makes your stomach a bit squeamish, I'll scale back to a pitch 
fork.  I fully believe that we'd have no terrorism on the planet if every 
citizen was armed with a minimum of a pitch fork. Who would pull out a box 
cutter on a plane with 100 people sitting there with pitch forks next to 
them?  Nobody, and that's my point.  The airlines need to have pitch fork or 
shotgun racks for each row and that's the end of terrorism.

It's also the end of building codes, but that's an aside.