[MrBeach]

Ahh...but you missed the point....

If I choose to employ an uncertified, contractor to perform work on my house with no guarantees, then I assume the risk of the results.

What is the purpose of government sponsored licenses? To guarantee quality of workmanship? To protect me from harm? Or to simply generate another revenue stream for the government?

The more we rely on government to protect us from the consequences of poor decisions the less skilled we become in evaluating the quality of the decisions we do make.

[AdamSelene235]

The more we rely on government to protect us from the consequences of poor decisions the less skilled we become in evaluating the quality of the decisions we do make.

EggsZactly!!

"[A] State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished; and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacrificed everything, will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly, it has preferred to banish." --John Stuart Mill, last paragraph in "On Liberty"

[Kenny Bunkport]

Compare the typical American community, complete with zoning laws, building codes, health and safety standards, standards for waste disposal, etc. and so on, with the typical community that lacks these kind of laws (I don't know, Guadalajara maybe, or the "suburbs" of Mexico City), and what one will typically see among the "unregulated" communities are examples of living hellholes. But, I suppose everyone should have the right to live in a hellhole.