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Viliam comments on [Stub] The problem with Chesterton's Fence - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Viliam 07 January 2016 03:55:17PM 0 points [-]

somebody had gone through great efforts to put a fence somewhere ... In your example, "the common practice of taking down Chesterton fences", this is not the case.

You mean that no one has gone through great efforts to remove the existing Chesterton fences? Seems false.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 08 January 2016 02:56:50PM 0 points [-]

Nobody has gone through great effort to create a Chesteron-fence-demolishing-machine.

Comment author: Lumifer 08 January 2016 03:33:41PM 3 points [-]

a Chesteron-fence-demolishing-machine

Those are usually called "revolutions".

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