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Re:Never Ending September Date by throwaway22032 on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @10:11PM (#37331677)
The attempted conversion of gatekeeping into a slur (it's not - it simply refers to upholding standards) is in fact an attack on the concept of tradition in general.

There are a lot of people who simply don't respect the concept of tradition or the idea that something can be time tested. They feel that everything can simply be reasoned from first principles, which is tempting (particularly when young) but misguided.

Re:Never Ending September Date by bavell on Thursday August 31, 2023 @08:44AM (#37336302)
100% agreed. Chesterton's fence[0] is a foreign concept to them. After all, how could those archaic morons in the past without our advanced technology have possibly landed on a better solution than the one some friends and I came up with but haven't yet put into practice?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...