“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
That’s a rather more concise way of expressing “Chesterton’s Fence”: a principle that urges us to exercise caution before we sweep away institutions, practices, buildings, and structures without fully understanding why they came to exist in the first place.
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