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Of course the tricky thing about traditions is that they change... which is also the best thing about them, as infanticide, slavery, stoning people to death etc. are 'traditional' but humans have mostly moved on from them now, luckily. Generally I'd say when people appeal to tradition in an argument it is an attempt to derail the discussion - "it goes without saying..."

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We also have many traditions around general morality, consideration, respect, tolerance, and so forth.

To give no consideration to tradition is a terrible idea for society; it devalues the work and thought of those who came before us, and it leads to throwing out hundreds of babies with the bathwater.

We're in agreement on the fallacy of "it goes without saying...," but many people in society today show no consideration to history or tradition, and see no value in attempting to understand it enough to see its advantages.

In other words: this 100% can be a fallacy, but in modern society, we're currently in more danger of forgetting the value of history and tradition, than the danger of valuing it too much.

Sure, I don't think any critic of some traditions in their culture would want to try to live without any of them. It is one of the advantages of being exposed to other belief systems, 'making the familiar strange and the strange familiar'.

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