Washing Your Hands - That's Big Government.

[ElFenix]

If I'm a customer, and I see an employee not wash their hands, I can call the health department.

I don't have to be in there the whole time as an employer to enforce policy. Random checks work.

 

[realibrad]

If I'm a customer, and I see an employee not wash their hands, I can call the health department.

I don't have to be in there the whole time as an employer to enforce policy. Random checks work.

That may spark an investigation, but no enforcement of the rule/law. Just because an employee was said to not wash his hands does not mean it is true.

Also, that is kinda getting away from the point that its not enforceable through law over free market. Because, unless someone is watching in the bathroom, it wont matter. My point was then, as it is now, that its a bad example for pro/anti free market.

 

[CPA]

So if a law is not 100% effective, it is 100% useless? That would mean that we should strike any law from our books that we have ever had to prosecute anyone for. Therefore we should only have laws that no one would ever break, which would of course be useless.

You don't get prosecuted for not washing your hands. You get prosecuted/sued for injury. I didn't argue to remove laws regarding liability. I'm arguing removing laws regarding washing your hands.

If I get sick from eating at a restaurant I really don't care how it happened. It happened.

 

[nickqt]

That's free market justice right there...



True Government Believers amuse me. They're as deluded as they believe Free Marketers to be. Free Marketers believe the market can fix everything, and True Government Believers believe that laws fix everything. "Without a law people would smear shit on their hands while they make your food!!!"

Yeah. They might. And how does a law stop them?

Most laws don't even attempt to prevent behavior. Instead, they delineate a punishment for breaking of that law that society has established as de facto proper behavior.

Then it becomes...wait for it, FreeMarket zealots...a cost-benefit analysis.

Do you want to not wash your hands, because FreeMarket principles dictate that the consumer must vote with their feet and eat somewhere that doesn't poison them, and risk getting fined?

Or do you take that extra 20 seconds out of your day and wash your hands, thereby not poisoning the consumers of your product.

 

[ElFenix]

You don't get prosecuted for not washing your hands. You get prosecuted/sued for injury. I didn't argue to remove laws regarding liability. I'm arguing removing laws regarding washing your hands.

If I get sick from eating at a restaurant I really don't care how it happened. It happened.

I'd rather not get sick to begin with.

Liability is a remedial action that simply isn't all that great. No one is going to sue over something that just keeps them off work for a couple days, but that's still an injury. Further, in this state the anti- government types have been tightening the screws on liability, and not just from the legal procedure side. The new governor ain't getting that payday from the courts anymore.

Further, money as a remedy isn't all that great for someone suffering really horrible consequences.