Superstition always directs action in the absence of knowledge.
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Human beings are very conservative in some ways and virtually never change numerical conventions once they grow used to them. They even come to mistake them for laws of nature.
If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
It is its rules that hold society together and bind it into a whole. Is it such a light thing to disregard the rules for trivial reasons?