Konkvistador comments on Open thread for December 17-23, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 24 December 2013 10:23:41PM 3 points [-]

What you say here is reasonable, but it is completely unrelated to your comment that started this thread. If, as in your original comment, people are mistaken about the age of their traditions, they are ignorant of the origins, and thus Chesterton advice to learn the origin applies.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 December 2013 08:39:17AM *  2 points [-]

This isn't directly related to that argument no, like I said I would need an essay to explain that (and I've started writing one), I was correcting a misreading of the classical Cheston's fence.