Rex_Admin said:
I had no idea it was added in the 60s. Makes much more sense now!
on a side note I don't think appealing to tradition would be a fallacy. It's still tradition. Of course we could both throw 10 debates for each side off the back and we would never get anywhere.
Appealing to tradition for something such as this applies to any discriminatory position;
"Free the slaves? But owning slaves is traditional!"
"Allow blacks the vote? But black people have never had that in the past, why should they get it now?"
"Remove "under God" from the pledge? But it's traditional!"
Well, It would have also been traditional to not put it in in the first place.