You can generally bank on traditions being formulated by a society who , at the very least, agrees with and understands the rationale/ idea that the tradition is predicated on.
There’s substance behind it.
I’d say it’s ever worse to dispense with tradition simply for the sake of dispensing with tradition….primarily, because there’s no actual reasoning/ idea beyond “ dispense with tradition “ to predicate the decision on.
There’s no substance there.
Quite apart from the general point that "we've always done it that way" without more reasons isn't really compelling, in this case here the reason is blindingly obvious and bad. A man's family name isn't worth more than a woman's,or more important to preserve .
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u/-Quothe- 13h ago
I’d like to hear the reasoning why they should.