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I always downgrade people in my estimations when I see they correlate old with being bad without a good reason.

I agree, but I try to stick to downgrading the comment/argument instead of the people themselves, because I’ve found it to be a pretty ubiquitous line of thought since I started noticing it.

I was listening to an episode of Joe Rogan, and the guest considered himself a conservative.

Discussing the differences between a conservative and a liberal he used an analogy of a fence, where a liberal would want to take it down and a conservative would want to leave it up.

It got me thinking if this was true or not.

A little digging and I found this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence

"Although the purpose of this fence is not obvious, there may be valid reasons for its presence."

(I'd like to think I'm in the mindful middle somewhere)

Sure it's tried and tested and fit for purpose, but at what cost?

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