How do you determine what is arbitrary?  For example, when I built my house the rules for septic fields in BC had changed quite dramatically and the new rules ended up costing my quite a bit of money and delayed my house by 5 months. I was pretty angry and would have gladly tossed the new rules aside at the time.  But 10 years later my system works fantastically and my neighbour, whose system went in under the old rules shortly before mine, has a failed system.  To compensate he has buried an illegal line to transfer the effluent directly from his system into a creek which flows into the river where Enderby draws its drinking water. I hate rules just as much as the next guy but some of them make sense but under Trump, the new septic rules could not have come into being.