To say "I don't see the use of this" is often a euphemism for "I see the harm this does, and it does not appear to achieve any counterbalancing benefit. Indeed, its purpose appears to have always been to cause harm, and so it should be cleared away expeditiously."
Um, people generally don't build fences to gratuitously cause harm.
Um, people generally don't build fences to gratuitously cause harm.
That's either trivial, or false.
It's trivial if you define "gratuitously cause harm" such that wanting someone else to be harmed always benefits oneself either directly or by satisfying a preference, and that counts as non-gratuitous.
It's false if you go by most modern Westerners' standard of harm.
There was no reason to limit Jews to ghettos in the Middle Ages except to cause harm (in sense 2).
Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are: