28 Dec
2022
28 Dec
'22
7:13 a.m.
On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 08:33:04PM -0700, Chris Smith wrote:
This conversation reminds me of a parable I encountered somewhere, in which someone declares "I don't understand why this decision was ever made, and I we should change it", and someone responds, "No, if you don't understand the decision was made, then you don't know enough to change it. If you learn why it was decided that way in the first place, then you will have the understanding to decide whether to change it."
That parable is Chesterton's fence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_fence