The principle of Chesterton’s Fence: Do not tear down a fence, until you understand why that fence was put up in the first place. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u... - ThreadSky

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klonick.bsky.social • 21 days ago

The principle of Chesterton’s Fence:

Do not tear down a fence, until you understand why that fence was put up in the first place.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/upshot/musk-doge-fraud-claims.html

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roxy33.bsky.social•21 days ago

This is why it is dangerous having incompetent fking idiots and pathological liars like Musk in government.

emmyjay.bsky.social•20 days ago

They never are

rlheppner.bsky.social•21 days ago

I have been wondering how Justice Gorsuch (big fan of Chesterton's Fence, less so of the administrative state) feels about all this.

jlp2024.bsky.social•21 days ago

Why? I mean he's not really vested in getting the facts right, see, eg, football-coach prayer case

ner430.bsky.social•21 days ago

"To preserve records of that fraud and protect victims of the identity theft, the U.S. Labor Department encouraged state agencies that administer unemployment benefits to create “pseudo claim” records — in effect, to tie real cases of fraud in their data to make-believe people.

ner430.bsky.social•21 days ago

"The implausibility of the records was the point. Agencies were seeking a way to keep track of fraud claims while detaching them from the identities of innocent people who might one day apply for unemployment benefits themselves."

gdivinetz.bsky.social•21 days ago

And here it is in the above article’s link:

sockpuppetpundit.bsky.social•21 days ago

I think it needs to be renamed "Jurassic Park's Fence."

People get that's bad.

mikepjones1.bsky.social•21 days ago

He knows why it was put up

He knows why he’s tearing it down

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