answer:Tradition grants consistency, stability, you know your place and role. It leads to bonding experiences and often include rites of passage. It gives one a cultural identity. Even those who rebel or disagree with roles and ideals are shaped through the lens of them. But ultimately, if too restrictive it progresses to stagnation. Resentment; symptoms of a sick society emerge. Persecution, rebellion, and so on. You know persecution really hasn’t changed so much since ancient times with superstitious stigmatas and pushing a person or family out of a tribe, killing in various methods. It is humbling to find that dispite our enlightenment, science and technological advances we are still stymied and stuck on overcoming ourself fear and other intangibles. Good question.