advantages and disadvantages of tradition and superstition
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What are the advantages of superstition?
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Superstition is generic.
We have evolved as pattern seeking apes.
As with all animals, we have emotions, pleasure, fear and so on which are the levers that our bodies have evolved to attach labels to behavior and experiences.
Our natural instinct, since before we evolved intelligence has always been to repeat behaviours that lead to pleasure, and avoid behaviours that lead to pain.
As pattern seeking apes, we have always desperately looked for the cause of anything good or bad. If we don't work out the cause, it knaws at us.
Our more evolved brain - is far more capable of taking a step back and working out logically what the actual experience and behavior relationship is.
For example a footballer plays a great game, and realizes that he was wearing odd socks. So his animal brain looking for an explanation for his performance attributes it to the most obvious unusual event. The millions of smaller, real combination of events that might actually cause a player to have a great game are all too cerebral for our core generic mindset so we see a player with his lucky odd socks.
Lightning comes out of the sky. We can't explain it which frightens the hell out of our ancient ancestors. Oh but hang on - if its an angry sky spirit, who just want us to pacify it with worship and gifts, then we’re back in control again and happy.
Superstition is an advantage then to animals.
It allows an animal to believe that returning to a certain spot, at a certain time of day will result in food. But as the animal lacks higher brain function, this is not a thought process like ours. It's not thinking Oh its time to do that, it's locked away the association of going to a particular place at a certain time of day when its hungry. If you give a pigeon a seed, everytime it hops on one leg - it will believe those two things are related and eventually hop on one leg for food.
In the wild, this strategy is better than no strategy at all - because very often the cause and effect are related. What we call superstition in human is just the name we give to this same process being applied improperly to the wrong things, where there IS no cause and effect. Worshiping the sky spirit doesn't stop the lightning and odd socks doesn't win the game.
This is from quara and is not mine
Advantages of superstition:
Some superstitions have elements of truth and or safety involved. For example bad luck for walking under a ladder or breaking a mirror. Both are dangerous either from being hit in the head with a paint tin or cut on mirrored glass. If you avoid these practices because you believe in bad luck when otherwise you would not this is a benefit.
Praying, particularly in the Muslim way can be reasonable exercise.
Remaining positive in the face of adversity could lead to success if you believe your diety has your back.
Most superstitions are relatively harmless other than the anxiety they can cause in those who believe in them. But there have been times they caused trouble.
The belief that cats were somehow evil and witch familiars caused people during the ‘Plague’ to kill cats, even burning them because they were seen as causing the disease. Ironically, since the disease was spread by fleas on rats, and cats kill rats… Killing the cats caused a boom in rat population which worsened the plague.
I’d call that a disadvantage.
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