Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Where do I find information on the following question: Should tradition be followed blindly?

Nothing should be followed blindly. Taking the literal
meaning of the phrase, even blind people use means other than sight to reduce the
problems of acting blindly.


Tradition is a useful starting
point for guiding current action. Tradition represents what has been found to be
consistently right and useful in the past and, therefor, has been adopted by many people
as a standard practice. But times change and, with that, requirements change. As a
result, traditions can and do become outdated. It is important to note that traditions
are not static. These do change with the changing times. Only problems is that average
people, often lack either the intelligence to see the need for change, or the courage to
take risk of venturing in the uncharted waters of breaking
traditions.


Also there may be situations where traditions
are still useful in general, but exceptions to tradition is justified because of some
special circumstances or requirements. When we act blindly we fail to see the signs
pointing to the need for changing the traditions or deviating from
them.

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