Tradition Debate

The cluster focuses on debates about the value, persistence, and flaws of traditions, including arguments for respecting longstanding practices versus criticisms like appeal to tradition and calls to reassess or abandon them.

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Keywords

TFA AKA wikipedia.org TRADITION tradition traditions traditional belief cultural passage norms generations appeal backwards

Sample Comments

Sticking to tradition doesn't necessarily mean that those countries are backwards.

codyb Apr 10, 2023 View on HN

I'd imagine that's the world's tradition for thousands of years and any thing different is a recent development and rather exclusive

digitalsushi Dec 1, 2017 View on HN

That might be an appeal to tradition, cant make up my mind.

wat10000 Aug 25, 2025 View on HN

This is basically the argument for respecting and following traditions even if nobody can explain why they're done.

psgbg Apr 19, 2015 View on HN

Please respect the value of tradition.

failuser Jun 12, 2023 View on HN

Traditions are very hard to break.

jacknews Jul 23, 2021 View on HN

Perhaps it's time to reassess this tradition.

jhkaghjkga Jan 30, 2016 View on HN

So cargo-cult? Doing things out of "tradition" without understanding what they are for?

eviks Apr 19, 2023 View on HN

That reason is called tradition

userbinator Jun 8, 2019 View on HN

More due to tradition than anything else.