re: #16 000G

Also, I don’t think that having a body of tradition as an authority to refer to is a safeguard against irrationality or injustice, like CL seems to imply.

I made it clear that there are traditions in various religions (mine included, obviously) that would curdle one’s blood—it would be absurd to claim otherwise as it wouldn’t take long for someone to present an example proving me wrong.

We can cherry-pick examples of awful things from numerous traditions until the cows come home, but that won’t nullify the benefits of the good ones. At least for me it won’t, therefore such an exercise would seem like a rather large investment of time for little return.

IMO, taditions can and do act as safeguards, but only to the extent that people are willing to accept and adhere to them. They can’t prevent irrationality or injustice any more than a parent’s warning to drive carefully can prevent a teenaged child from drag racing, or a law against against murder prevent someone from killing. People will do what they’re going to do.

Speaking of people doing things, this particular person has Saturday chores to do in the analog world, so she’s off to go tend to them.