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What does same-sex marriage have to do with the article? Yes, you can apply "Chesterton’s Fence" to the question of marriage law, and then decide that the justi
by gohrt 10y ago
What does same-sex marriage have to do with the article? Yes, you can apply "Chesterton’s Fence" to the question of marriage law, and then decide that the justification (Mormon or otherwise) for banning same-sex marriage are not convincing. For example, you may decide that our modern nation does not need to compel everyone to reproduce as quickly as possible, so there is no need to ban non-reproductive marriages.
- cr0sh 10y ago> What does same-sex marriage have to do with the article? Read the article again; toward the end it discusses this. It'd be one thing if I brought it up and it wasn't talked about in the article - but it clearly is discussed...?
- tmm 10y agoDid the link quietly change? Based on this thread and a google cache link in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13065097 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13065097 it looks like the original link was to an article in ldsmag.com, but now points to a post at abovethelaw.com. Other than referring to Chesterton's Fence, they don't really intersect.
- greenyoda 10y agoIt's also possible that whoever posted the cache link accidentally copied the wrong URL from the Google results page. The title of the abovethelaw.com article matches the title of this HN story ("The Fallacy of Chesterton's Fence"), but the cache link points to an article entitled "The Parable of Chesterton’s Fence". (From what I've observed, when the moderators change a story's link, they always add a comment saying they've done so - so that doesn't seem to be what happened here.)