Is there a person's name related to this law? It says "Don't destroy something if you have no idea why it was built in the first place."
I found it somewhere on the internet, and it goes like this:
There is a metal fence anchored in the ground, built sometime ago.
Two people are coming along the way and reach the same side of the fence.
Both of them don't know why the fence is there and who constructed it when.
Both of them find that, right now the fence is in their way and they wouldn't have come to a stop if the fence right now didn't exist at all.
The man says: "This fence is in my way. I don't know which idiot put this stupid fence there! Whatever, I don't care! This fence must be ripped out and destroyed, because I want to walk along this path without having to go all the way around this fence."
The woman says: "Yes it's also in my way, maybe. But I don't know why the fence was put here. Maybe it was built in order to stop us from doing something stupid like going where we don't belong, because it's dangerous to go there. So, you have told me and thus the world, that you also have no idea why that fence was built."
The woman continues: "Under these circumstances, I can't allow you to remove this fence. If you had told me that you knew about the original purpose for constructing this fence, why it was built, then maybe I could have allowed its destruction. We maybe could have had a discussion about that purpose and if it's still a valid reason for this fence to exist today. Or we could have thought about other, new and different reasons that justify this fence's continued existence today. But you have shown that you prefer ignorance and action without giving any thoughts to the consequences. That's why I can't allow you to destroy that fence."
Does this ring a bell? Anyone knows about the author? And is there a better way to phrase that law's name?
This described situation with the fences and two people probably didn't happen in real life but is instead written for educational purposes, so I think it fits the topic of this subreddit of educational rational fiction. Since it's not my work, and I want to find out who the author is, it could be considered WIP. But the story itself is completed. Oh, I just found the deconstruction flair. That's probably a subset of educational? Fits much better for my post.