That was a very nice different view on Chesterton’s Fence, thanks @rixx.

Again, the frustrating thing about this in practice is that no matter how thoroughly we are able to come back and tell our conservative friends that we do fully understand and appreciate the original reasons for the construction of the fence, they remain unwilling to “allow” us to remove it. (The word “allow” there is worth pondering. The presumption there about who is, by definition, always a supplicant, and who holds the authority to permit or to prohibit is telling. “Allow” is, in this instance, very much a fence-builder’s word.)

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2019/10/21/chestertons-fence-and-frosts-wall/