No, that's a strawman. What you read is "don't open a
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business knowing it is subject to safety laws and then ignore them on the basis of govt laws being immoral and illegit and then hide behind that defense when you are responsible for people dying.
This post from you is classic pickle:
Today we have some people arguing that the Oakland warehouse owner's refusal to allow government intrusion into his affairs, his defense of property rights, is a direct cause of death. Not negligence, but not allowing government to infringe upon his rights. No one questions the force of government here and its monopoly in the failure of that monopoly. No one considers people may have known the situation, and agreed to live there under those conditions. No one considers for a second free-market alternatives. No, government is the great benefactor and the great holder of wisdom.
You focus on this guy's rights being violated by govt over his negligence. in a private law society, we'd probably have building standards and safety codes, but you utterly miss that.
Since govt exists. those codes replace what would be contract language. Again, you can't see the now for the abstract.