Airbnb's silent killer: 19 carbon monoxide deaths in 10 years, but detectors still not required

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.world – 249 points –
Airbnb's silent killer: 19 carbon monoxide deaths in 10 years, but detectors still not required
nbcnewyork.com
36

You are viewing a single comment

Freedom and all that

That’s what I don’t get - we aren’t less able to rent shit, simply there’s some requirements to do so. They have the freedom to die of co poisoning?

Regulations restrict freedoms. That's the absolute extent of their logic. In this case, it would infringe on the freedom to rent unsafe lodging to people.

Yeah that would not go well with my personal rule #1; don’t be an asshole to others.

I think the first ammendment is freedom of speech and the second ammendment is the right to shoot guns. So you have the right to be an asshole and get shot for it, and if you were wrongly shot, someone else can shoot the person who shot you. Perfect harmony!

/lol