This is going to be a short post.

I have thought about things of this nature before, but today something jumped out at me yet again, in a more profound way than in times past.

It is very simple.

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I was walking back from returning my cart to the grocery store after unloading the bags in the car. I had grabbed a bottle of rooibos tea from one of the bags. After pushing the cart back to its place, relaxed, I began to walk back to the car, twisting the cap from the rooibos tea as I walked. I took a big, healthy swig. Ahhh. Just what the doctor ordered. I examined the bottle. Ito En. The cheap brand. It had cost about 83 cents.

For whatever reason, at that moment the thought hit me: I have no idea where the hell this stuff is made, or who is working there. This shit could be poisoned for all I know, and I am drinking it with one hundred percent trust in this random company and these random people I have no idea about.

HOW IS THIS NOT TOTAL ANARCHY!!?!?

Well, someone will say, government regulations ensure that companies are punished if a product is poisoned or some other catastrophe like that occurs. Hmm. Okay. It's true there are government regulations and punishments for such acts. But, wait a minute. What kind of punishment is actually dealt out? What is the actual consequence the head of the company is scared of? Oh, right, losing MONEY. The government punishments result in the business losing money or being shut down, effectively. If it is just money that keeps companies in line, for the most part, why do we need all these government "regulations"?

Sure, you might object, but there are some crazy individuals who would poison their vat at the tea factory just for fun. They are not scared of consequences. Okay. Right. And these people, not scared of consequences, will thus also not be deterred by any amount of state regulations. What is interesting though, is that a company's desire to make more money results in the incentivization of better potential employee screening and vetting protocols, prior to hiring. No manager, CEO, or company president wants his or her business ruined because they accidentally hired some psychopath. As for the rest of the "normal" people, they are incentivized to not do such a thing because they value human life, or at least their own life, enough not to throw it a way for some sick murderous stunt. They are incentivized to sustain themselves, and others, out of natural self-interest.

The takeaway: The free market is incentivized to create its own regulations. Self-interest is what keeps people safe, in general. State regulation has already proven itself an inhumane and disgusting failure. Why? The state is both the regulator and the "regulated." "Conflict of interest" is too small a phrase, I feel.

See: "Sovereign Immunity"

The sovereign immunity doctrine prevents any entity, governmental or private, from suing the federal government unless -- unless the government gives its permission -- to be sued. And, as you might expect, when the government decides when and if the government can be sued, well, they have a tendency to side with themselves.

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/13/opinions/cevallos-animas-river-liability/index.html

They poison our rivers, kidnap our children, lock up fathers and mothers for possessing a plant, bomb wedding parties and funerals, steal half our money, starve children to death overseas, create horrendous birth defect epidemics, burn down buildings full of innocent men, women, and children, rape women on the side of the road, drop nuclear bombs on whole cities full of people, molest and rape babies and kids, and we need them to "regulate!?!"

You're out of your mind.