Ah the good old "appeal to tradition" fallacy. Just because it happened for a long time doesn't mean it is necessarily right, moral, or just. This fallacious

Ah the good old "appeal to tradition" fallacy. Just because it happened for a long time doesn't mean it is necessarily right, moral, or just. This fallacious argument was used to retain slavery in the US for 50+ years after it was abolished in Britain/UK. It was used to justify restricting voting to white, landholding men and banning interracial marriage for centuries. And if I were to use one of the president's favorite fallacies against himself[2], "what about" all of the places in the world where we reject local sovereignty for the supposed "national security" of the USA? I would argue that all of the problems the US has had with Iran since the late 1960s have to do with the USA's lack of respect for Iranian sovereignty in the 1950s. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism