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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Tradition is important because it is history and it is the glue that holds culture and socities together. If you wipe away all tradition, historically it's been shown to undermine and cause violent changes in society.Ever read Edmund Burke? Look at Post-Revolutionary France, Communist Russia, even Iraq after the American invasion and you see what happens when you try to remove tradition or institutions and substitute your own blank slate or better ideas.
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In some parts of Africa it is tradition to mutilate womens genitalia. Are you telling me that if we wiped away this practice we would only be causing violent changes and inviting chaos?
We did away with the traditional definition of marriage by allowing gays to marriage. Did our country fall into chaos? Or is that coming next week?
Are you going to tell me that if we removed "God" from our national anthem that Canadian culture would not be able to hold together and our society would cease to function?