Lumifer comments on A Voting Puzzle, Some Political Science, and a Nerd Failure Mode - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 10 October 2013 05:50:31PM 7 points [-]

the fence quote trips my "this sounds like someone trying to come up with a clever justification for their knee-jerk prejudices" alarm

I don't think Chesterton says there are necessarily good reasons for the fence. What he says is that some reasons exist and until you know what they are you can't evaluate whether they are good or bad.