I’m quite confident it wouldn’t, hence “bizarre”, but I don’t think that matters to the questions I’m actually trying to address with the hypothetical. I just used a drunk driver because that’s what DeVliegendeHollander used.
The point is that traditions, especially long established traditions, generally do in fact contain good advice.
I think the point is weaker: long established traditions do not contain self-destructive advice and contain good advice for the times in which they were created. If the circumstances have changed sufficiently, the advice of ancient traditions could, in fact, be bad.
That tendency exists, and is part of why I’m confident the thing I described as a bizarre alternate universe wouldn’t really happen, but it seems as true-but-irrelevant as the simple fact that such a tradition probably wouldn’t develop.
I’m quite confident it wouldn’t, hence “bizarre”, but I don’t think that matters to the questions I’m actually trying to address with the hypothetical. I just used a drunk driver because that’s what DeVliegendeHollander used.
The point is that traditions, especially long established traditions, generally do in fact contain good advice.
I think the point is weaker: long established traditions do not contain self-destructive advice and contain good advice for the times in which they were created. If the circumstances have changed sufficiently, the advice of ancient traditions could, in fact, be bad.
That tendency exists, and is part of why I’m confident the thing I described as a bizarre alternate universe wouldn’t really happen, but it seems as true-but-irrelevant as the simple fact that such a tradition probably wouldn’t develop.