You can question a tradition without getting rid of it.
To be more concrete, what I have in mind are things like religious traditions (e.g. “light a candle in the church”) or superstitions (e.g. “don’t sing at the table because you’ll marry a gypsy”) or even culinary traditions that differ between cultures. Occasionally people in my family have insisted on such things after I explicitly question them and despite evidence disproving them.
Religion is a complex topic and is a tradition that does provide benefits like community cohesion. If you do accept that you want to pursue those goals candles are a useful tool which is why the secular solstice that we rationalist have uses candles.
It might not be your taste but probably it’s just something we you lack the understanding of the value it provides.
Explicitly questioning things you don’t understand like Cassava root treatment does not allow you do understand all their benefits.
You can question a tradition without getting rid of it.
To be more concrete, what I have in mind are things like religious traditions (e.g. “light a candle in the church”) or superstitions (e.g. “don’t sing at the table because you’ll marry a gypsy”) or even culinary traditions that differ between cultures. Occasionally people in my family have insisted on such things after I explicitly question them and despite evidence disproving them.
Religion is a complex topic and is a tradition that does provide benefits like community cohesion. If you do accept that you want to pursue those goals candles are a useful tool which is why the secular solstice that we rationalist have uses candles.
It might not be your taste but probably it’s just something we you lack the understanding of the value it provides.
Explicitly questioning things you don’t understand like Cassava root treatment does not allow you do understand all their benefits.