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Conventions & Logic

  He:   Hey..Why are we doing it this way ?   She:   Its supposed to be done like that    He:   Why? It doesnt seem to serve any purpose .   She:  This is how it was done till now & we need to maintain that way.   He: But there are better ways of doing this..Why spend such an awful time for doing this in an archiac way ?   She:  That deviates from the convention..    He:Its like a dogma..U spend so much of your time to preserve a convention which doesnt seem to serve any purpose.    She: It was done like this till now & it'll be done in the same way going forward no matter what effort it takes..We got to do it.   He: Sigh!!.. Is there any single word for 'useless convention' :)            -  There's this wonderful movie - 300 - in which they picturize how statements from Oracles are made..And the futility of obeying to a convention/norm/dogma is shown in a touching way... We get exposed to different systems in our life...None of them are perfect..Rather, those s...