Anyone who thinks we don’t need building codes is too far jaded to reason with.
Don’t need them? Look at countries that have few or none...like Mexico. Look at how their buildings fall like houses of cards in earthquakes while ours remain mostly intact.
Oh, Mexico has building codes. Piles and piles of them. It’s just that they’re selectively enforced to prevent anybody not in the loop (if you know what I mean) to do anything. Just like most Mexican regulation.