[Ichneumon]

I don't know how to respond to that. Some truths are just self-evident.

That sounds a lot like, "it's just how I've been conditioned, but I've never actually stopped to wonder if it made sense."

Caesar: "Pardon him Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."
-- Caesar and Cleopatra, Act II, George Bernard Shaw

"That which is unchallenged and exercised as habit rapidly becomes ritual. When this occurs, dissent becomes an object of surprise, if not resentment."
-- B. Carmon Hardy

[Petronski]

That sounds a lot like, "it's just how I've been conditioned, but I've never actually stopped to wonder if it made sense."

No, it sounds like "there's the toilet, I'm going to pee there."