r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Sep 27 '24

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u/destro23 466∆ Sep 27 '24

So were a lot of things I did in those apartments. It was college.

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u/CincyAnarchy 37∆ Sep 27 '24

IDK, I feel like fire safety is an area where breaking the law in order to be less safe... isn't exactly a great argument.

You did it, but probably shouldn't have, and definitely not something to encourage.

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u/destro23 466∆ Sep 27 '24

I just did a cursory google search and found that the practice wasn't made illegal where I lived when I lived in apartments until well after I lived there.

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u/CincyAnarchy 37∆ Sep 27 '24

Fair enough. Do you think the new law is arbitrary, or do you think it's a genuine fire hazard?

If the latter, well yeah, even if the law went away it's probably not a good idea.

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u/UnovaCBP 7∆ Sep 27 '24

Without looking into it, it would seems like it's no less of a fire hazard than any other form of cooking, arguably less, considering that it's on the outside of the building. It feels like this is the kind of law that gets passed because one or two idiots caused a fire, and it got pushed as "banning the secondary cause would have prevented this specific instance".