"While the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid." -- G.K. Chesterton
Those who make it their habit to tear down old statues and statutes simply because they are old hand down an inheritance of hating history. But that merely means that any statues and statutes they erect are merely destined to be destroyed by their descendants. You don't fix someone else's stupid by asserting your own. Your issue, in that instance, is not their stupidity, but your preference. When one stupidity simply replaces another it becomes obvious that the issue was never a matter of eliminating stupidity, but of merely elevating your own.
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