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> The counterpoint to Chesterton's Fence is the psychology experiment with the monkeys, the stairs and the banana.

Except that experiment never happened. It appeared in some book without any source (a.k.a. pulled out of the author's ass). Interestingly there was a similar experiment, but with an opposite result; the old monkey re-learned the forbidden behavior from the new one.

http://www.throwcase.com/2014/12/21/that-five-monkeys-and-a-...




A lot of these parables are purely made up.




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