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[Tom Gorman]

Damon hit it on the head with the need for there to be a "shift in  
the human psyche," and it is going to be a long (hope we have the  
time), hard battle.  Codes, like so many other legal edifices, may  
have begun with good intentions (though I wonder if attempting to  
protect people from their own ignorance or stupidity is ultimately a  
good idea!) but has now become just as much a program to protect and  
maintain industry and thus an economy built on the notion of  
perpetual and unlimited growth and consumption.  From the perspective  
of industry and the economy we can't have people deciding to learn to  
build their own houses out of no/low cost materials- to remove such a  
substantial chunk from the economy would spell its collapse.  If we  
don't manage to change the foundations of out growth economy, we'll  
change nothing.