http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2012/03/chesterton-fence.html http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2012/03/chesterton-fe... This paradox rests on the

http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2012/03/chesterton-fence.html http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2012/03/chesterton-fe... This paradox rests on the most elementary common sense. The gate or fence did not grow there. It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep. It is highly improbable that it was put there by escaped lunatics who were for some reason loose in the street. Some person had some reason for thinking it would be a good thing for somebody. And until we know what the reason was, we really cannot judge whether the reason was reasonable.