did Chesterton ever stop to think that he shouldn't stop people from tearing down fences that they can't explain the reasons for having unless he can explain why it is they do that
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Replying to @chaosprime
This comes down to the concept reasonable defaults. People sometimes look at a fence and, when evaluating if it should be there, assume the default is that it shouldn't. But that's spitting in the face of the guy who built it, who claimed (by building it) that it should be there.
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Replying to @sepiatonal @chaosprime
If you don't understand the argument of the guy who built the fence, then you can't begin to refute it. The default should be to assume that the fence exists for a reason, because otherwise nobody would have built it.
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yes my joek is that one should assume that the tendency to tear down fences willy-nilly arose in the human species for a reason, and one should not suppress it without understanding what that reason is
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