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		MrPatan 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ear muscle we thought humans didn't use activates ... 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?

estebank 11 months ago [–]

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.

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