On: Japan's Strict Building Codes Saved Lives

[bluedanieru]

Honestly, I'm trying to remain reasonable here, but are people seriously upvoting a post where a guy comes out and says that Japan would be better off without strict standards in place for buildings to withstand earthquakes, 24 hours after one of the most massive earthquakes in recorded history struck off the coast of the Japan and those very standards saves countless lives and billions in damage? How many lunatics do we have on this board, anyway?

[rubashov → bluedanieru]

White and East Asian countries can afford building codes. Indonesians and Africans cannot. That's the missing point here.

In the context of 2nd/3rd world nations the point about strict codes being unfordable is reasonable.