In a similar vain, I’ve always thought Chesterton’s fence reasoning was a bit self defeating — in that, using chestertons fence as a conceptual tool is, in itself, often breaking it. Often people do the tradition thing for cultural, familial, religious reasons. While I understand it’s a heuristic and this doesn’t actually undermine the fence, this seems like an underrated point.
In a similar vain, I’ve always thought Chesterton’s fence reasoning was a bit self defeating — in that, using chestertons fence as a conceptual tool is, in itself, often breaking it. Often people do the tradition thing for cultural, familial, religious reasons. While I understand it’s a heuristic and this doesn’t actually undermine the fence, this seems like an underrated point.