"Drawing the line in the wrong place is preferable to refusing to draw it at all."
- Doug Wilson
"Morality, like art, consists in drawing a line somewhere." - G. K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News
While it is wrong to fence an area too narrowly or too broadly, it is even worse to not make fences at all. The fact of fences is itself a central principle which cannot be ignored. Fences are inescapable. It is not a matter of if you will have fences, but where you will erect them.
To refuse to fence anything in or out in an effort to avoid an error is to already be in the embrace of making the error of liberality. The indecision is itself a decision in one particular direction.
To not fight is to lose the fight. To refuse to oppose the enemy is to accept your enemy's imposition. God placed enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. To refuse to fight is to lose the fight. The serpent's soldiers will never lay down their arms until they are snuffed out finally and forever by the Serpent Crusher.
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