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"[...] they don't realize that things like regulations are often not only necessary but desirable - not an evil but a Good Thing.

"A mechanical regulator prevents a machine from running too hot, too cold, too fast or too slow. A voltage regulator keeps the electricity flowing the components at a steady level. Both forms of regulation keep equipment from blowing up or burning out. This is what regulations are supposed to do. True, if done badly regulation can add unnecessary work and parts making a machine - or a system - perform poorly. Both conservatives and libertarians want to smash the regulations and let the machine run wild." -- malada, 2011-06-26

[overlaps an earlier QotD by a line]