• Lojcs@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I hate the "this is how it's always been and if we change it society might collapse" argument

    • Yurt_Owl
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      1 year ago

      But I pulled the pronoun lever and now society is collapsing

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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      1 year ago

      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

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      It's literally just a re-run of the classic Chesterton 'Fences' thought experiment.

      Maybe someday conservatives will get a new argument.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      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.