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Chesterton's Fence: http://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/ http://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/
by rhizome 8y ago
Chesterton's Fence: http://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/ http://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/
- exolymph 8y agoBut the point of Chesterton's fence is not that you should never knock down a fence :P
- rhizome 8y agoBut what it does do is tell us that the difficulty of removing a fence is irrelevant to its utility. :)
- hyperman1 8y agoI feel like it is the reason why disruption works so well: After an organisation exists for a while, 100s of fences are clogging up the streets. Some of them useful, some of them used to be useful, some of them never thought out well to begin with. So disruption is taking a bulldozer, and driving right over them. The clearly usefull fences get erected quickly. The forgotten usefull ones are rediscovered after a while, maybe causing some minor damage in the process. But the grand majority turned out to be useless, and is now gone for good. Of course, if there is a pack of nuclear civilization killing wolves out there, they better stay fenced off or else. The trick is identifying them. There might be a role for a regulator in there.