If you set that standard then every single woman will fail to meet it. The ones you think meet it are just a case of you failing to screen thoroughly enough, which will be revealed later with catastrophic results. It's more sensible to just fall back on old wisdom: No women in leadership roles.
Traditions are solutions to problems we forget existed. You'd be an idiot to casually discard them.
The ones you think meet it are just a case of you failing to screen thoroughly enough, which will be revealed later with catastrophic results.
Your filter is an unfalsifiable mechanism. You assume it will never be wrong, because it's not based on evidence, just the pre-emptive assertion that it's right, and no evidence is capable of showing that you filtered incorrectly.
You do not accept the reality of the human animal, because you prefer narrative.
Traditions are solutions to problems we forget existed. You'd be an idiot to casually discard them.
There is a pacific island tribe that has a ceremony for "coming of age" as a boy, where old men cut open their dicks to the urethra and then have the 14 year olds rub their genitals into the opened urethrae.
Now. What exactly is problem that this tradition solving?
Traditions may solve problems, or they could be completely wrong. An appeal to tradition is almost exactly as stupid and unnuanced as a reductive & narrative based ban.
If I had to guess I'd say it was solving male promiscuity, just in the worst way possible. Staple some good old PTSD to the use of your sexual organ and suddenly the prospect of sticking your dick in every warm hole you can find conjures horrific flashbacks instead of hedonistic urges.
Traditions may solve problems, or they could be completely wrong.
And you can usually tell which was which because the ones with traditions that solved a problem usually became extremely powerful.
For two I know off the top of my head, the Jews cleaning rituals compared to most Medieval Christians kept lice at bay, which is why there is a random dead zone in Poland where there were minimal deaths to the Black Plague (which was spread by lice). And the Vikings had a tradition of taking the ash of their ancestors when they were burned on a pyre and adding the ash to their weapon so that they could carry their ancestors into battle. Ash is carbon. Congratulations, you just reinvented steel when everyone else is using iron.
And you can usually tell which was which because the ones with traditions that solved a problem usually became extremely powerful.
I don't agree and my example is the problem. That tribe has been doing that for as long as anyone in their tribe can remember.
Yes, some traditions will stand the test of time, but if you don't scrutinize them, there's a good chance you're not gonna know which ones are the ones you should stop doing. Worse, some problems no longer exist, and you're carrying an erroneous tradition that solves nothing.
And the Vikings had a tradition of taking the ash of their ancestors when they were burned on a pyre and adding the ash to their weapon so that they could carry their ancestors into battle. Ash is carbon. Congratulations, you just reinvented steel when everyone else is using iron.
I feel the need to interject on this because yes the Vikings made steel. Shit steel. Shit steel that most civilizations didn't use because it wasn't much better than high quality iron of the time period. Perhaps "slag". High-grade steel that starts getting used in the middle ages needed better practices than that.
All I'm saying is set the standards. if they can't match it, that's their fault.
If you set that standard then every single woman will fail to meet it. The ones you think meet it are just a case of you failing to screen thoroughly enough, which will be revealed later with catastrophic results. It's more sensible to just fall back on old wisdom: No women in leadership roles.
Traditions are solutions to problems we forget existed. You'd be an idiot to casually discard them.
Your filter is an unfalsifiable mechanism. You assume it will never be wrong, because it's not based on evidence, just the pre-emptive assertion that it's right, and no evidence is capable of showing that you filtered incorrectly.
You do not accept the reality of the human animal, because you prefer narrative.
There is a pacific island tribe that has a ceremony for "coming of age" as a boy, where old men cut open their dicks to the urethra and then have the 14 year olds rub their genitals into the opened urethrae.
Now. What exactly is problem that this tradition solving?
Traditions may solve problems, or they could be completely wrong. An appeal to tradition is almost exactly as stupid and unnuanced as a reductive & narrative based ban.
If I had to guess I'd say it was solving male promiscuity, just in the worst way possible. Staple some good old PTSD to the use of your sexual organ and suddenly the prospect of sticking your dick in every warm hole you can find conjures horrific flashbacks instead of hedonistic urges.
And you can usually tell which was which because the ones with traditions that solved a problem usually became extremely powerful.
For two I know off the top of my head, the Jews cleaning rituals compared to most Medieval Christians kept lice at bay, which is why there is a random dead zone in Poland where there were minimal deaths to the Black Plague (which was spread by lice). And the Vikings had a tradition of taking the ash of their ancestors when they were burned on a pyre and adding the ash to their weapon so that they could carry their ancestors into battle. Ash is carbon. Congratulations, you just reinvented steel when everyone else is using iron.
I don't agree and my example is the problem. That tribe has been doing that for as long as anyone in their tribe can remember.
Yes, some traditions will stand the test of time, but if you don't scrutinize them, there's a good chance you're not gonna know which ones are the ones you should stop doing. Worse, some problems no longer exist, and you're carrying an erroneous tradition that solves nothing.
I feel the need to interject on this because yes the Vikings made steel. Shit steel. Shit steel that most civilizations didn't use because it wasn't much better than high quality iron of the time period. Perhaps "slag". High-grade steel that starts getting used in the middle ages needed better practices than that.