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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Sticking to tradition doesn't necessarily mean that those countries are backwards.
I'd imagine that's the world's tradition for thousands of years and any thing different is a recent development and rather exclusive
That might be an appeal to tradition, cant make up my mind.
This is basically the argument for respecting and following traditions even if nobody can explain why they're done.
Please respect the value of tradition.
Traditions are very hard to break.
Perhaps it's time to reassess this tradition.
So cargo-cult? Doing things out of "tradition" without understanding what they are for?
That reason is called tradition
More due to tradition than anything else.