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by MrPatan 497 days ago
The Chesterton fence defense (yeah!) doesn't apply.

Did you care about Chesterton when the previous set of fence-smashers went around smashing (much older) fences?

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The Chesterton fence argument is that you need to understand why the fence is there. If you do understand it, and still remove it, it doesn't say that's bad.