Chesterton's Fence sounds like it was retooled by Jordan Peterson in his definition of truth (broadly: anything evolutionarily useful, Making Sense podcast w/ Sam Harris).
Peterson takes it to weird places, IMO, and Chesteron's Fence works better.
"Don't remove a fence until you know why it was put there."
It was a rhetorical device to support conservatism from the beginning. Chesterton was using it to defend Catholicism, but it works just as well for racial segregation, slavery, voting rights restrictions, any status quo.
Peterson takes it to weird places, IMO, and Chesteron's Fence works better.
"Don't remove a fence until you know why it was put there."