Okay. That is something I didn’t know but fire codes are hardly the only standards that are generated via private organizations, but they all have to be implemented and enforced by governments. Without acceptance by the government with jurisdiction they are just words on paper.
But I don’t think that changes the claim that fire code is just one instances of a class and probably should not be singled out as something special unless it can be demonstrated as special. But one can look at the whole class and see similar problems of unintended consequences and special/inside interest incentives when trying to figure out if the over all results of any rule generation by some group is a new plus or negative. In fact I think knowing now that there are multiple layers between fire code design and implementation I have more concerns about labeling it as the root of all evil, seems more inflammatory than accurate.
Okay. That is something I didn’t know but fire codes are hardly the only standards that are generated via private organizations, but they all have to be implemented and enforced by governments. Without acceptance by the government with jurisdiction they are just words on paper.
But I don’t think that changes the claim that fire code is just one instances of a class and probably should not be singled out as something special unless it can be demonstrated as special. But one can look at the whole class and see similar problems of unintended consequences and special/inside interest incentives when trying to figure out if the over all results of any rule generation by some group is a new plus or negative. In fact I think knowing now that there are multiple layers between fire code design and implementation I have more concerns about labeling it as the root of all evil, seems more inflammatory than accurate.