True, but not sure functional arguments are convincing in defense of institutions or traditions deemed unjust.
A key function of 'traditions' is to manage the complex social, sexual, & economic trade-offs that people can't discuss rationally.
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If X is unjust, the fact that it's the way we have organized social cooperation so far is not a great defense.
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Mating effort vs. parenting effort in reproductive systems.
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r/K selection.
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To encourage folks to take a step back and think about them more abstractly than usual.
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No. Nobody gave informed conscious consent to them. Social contracts are (sometimes useful) fictions.
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But can’t those traditions become defunct? The point is to separate the wheat from the chaff. But many do conflate tradition w/ regression.
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Yep. One heuristic: have the fundamental trade offs changed? If not, tradition likely still relevant.
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