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		fastball on July 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The global fertility rate is falling Part of the beauty of being human is the capacity to not do things just because our forebears did them too.

kunai on July 15, 2020 [–]

Someone once told me that tradition just consists of the personality quirks of our ancestors.

I don't necessarily agree with it in the majority of instances but it was eye-opening. The line between tradition/superstition is thin.

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