Fittingly, Burke’s arguments for deferring to the legitimacy of the status quo have been passed down and reused generation after generation with only the most minimal change. I wish that I could dig up his skeleton and set it on fire.
It’s about as sound of an argument as saying its natural for coal miners to cough and die from black lung or its natural for children to work in factories because of their size, or the naturality of women not needing an education just to be homemakers
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I hate the “this is how it’s always been and if we change it society might collapse” argument
Fittingly, Burke’s arguments for deferring to the legitimacy of the status quo have been passed down and reused generation after generation with only the most minimal change. I wish that I could dig up his skeleton and set it on fire.
It’s about as sound of an argument as saying its natural for coal miners to cough and die from black lung or its natural for children to work in factories because of their size, or the naturality of women not needing an education just to be homemakers
But I pulled the pronoun lever and now society is collapsing
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It’s literally just a re-run of the classic Chesterton ‘Fences’ thought experiment.
Maybe someday conservatives will get a new argument.