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  • Every tradition and social structure has some important reasoning behind it, and if you want to get rid of some prohibition or institution because you think it’s outdated, useless, or obstructing progress then that is a demonstration of your lack of qualification to make such a change.

    Where did you get this impression from? If you think it’s outdated, useless, or obstructing progress that’s understanding. Seeing that it’s useless is different from not seeing its use. There is literally a quote about that in the same chapter.

    If he knows how it arose, and what purposes it was supposed to serve, he may really be able to say that they were bad purposes, or that they have since become bad purposes, or that they are purposes which are no longer served.