Chesterton's fence in the modern world.

[ford_prefect42]

There's an old adage. "never tear down a fence unless you understand why it was put up". In general, that's good advice, because in general, there *was* a reason. However, it's losing something in terms of relatability, especially as pertains to societal changes. There's a HUGE pushback against "traditional marriage" for example, and somehow

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[dantheserene]

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread -- Alexander Pope

[prester_scott]

Somehow I doubt the different phrasing will change any minds.

[ford_prefect42]

Prolly not, but there is value in simply showing that there are people of good will on the other side :)

[allaboutweather]

By the looks of it, they're trying to "fix" what isn't broken (bathroom 1.7).

[kharmii]

The government should never have gotten into bathrooms, just like they should never have gotten into marriage. People used to get married through the church. Then the secular people had to ruin that and force us to give money to the government to get married. Private businesses should be allowed to determine whether or not they go for this bathroom nonsense, and it should only go as far as allowing a unisex bathroom, not redefining reality to mean a man should be considered a woman, just because he feeels like one, alters his appearance, etc.

[ford_prefect42]

Pretty much agree.

As far as bathrooms go, my first question is: Whose bathroom is it?" and yeah, I think that private institutions should have whatever bathroom policy they want, from "We check your genitals at the door" to "there's only one bathroom". Let the market decide which stores to patronize.

The problem comes in the *public* places. Schools being the big one.