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
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.
![[Socialists] Would you walk into a hospital and start fiddling with a person's life support system if you had no idea what any of the levers do?](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/e54ecdc6-9852-48c4-a8bf-19a87c64aecf.png){kind=link}
I hate the "this is how it's always been and if we change it society might collapse" argument
But I pulled the pronoun lever and now society is collapsing
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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
It's literally just a re-run of the classic Chesterton 'Fences' thought experiment.
Maybe someday conservatives will get a new 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.