A stronger case for Chesterton's fence can be made for older over recent innovations
Hm. I would expect the reverse. The Chesterton's Fence argument is about knowing the purpose of something and being able to understand the consequences of changing it. With older traditions both are harder. Granted, there is the offsetting factor that over the course of years (or centuries) no one was bothered enough to change it -- an evolutionary argument, sort of -- but an appeal to the wisdom of ancestors is not the same thing as the Chesterton's Fence.
The Chesterton's Fence argument is about knowing the purpose of something and being able to understand the consequences of changing it. With older traditions both are harder.
This is turning the argument on its head.
The point isn't that knowing a purpose for something is a reason to keep the thing. If we know the reason for it and judge it good, of course we shall keep it. Banal. If we know a reason for a thing, and judge it bad, then the argument isn't an encouragement to keep it either. No Chesterton's Fence is the argument that us not knowing the rea...
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