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		ajuc on Feb 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My seatbelt rule for judgment 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.

tomrod on Feb 7, 2022 [–]

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks. It definitely had a "fear the future" vibe in the wikipedia article for it.

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