Is anything more powerful than custom or habit?

Answer 1

Apart from Yahoo! Answers and the Dyson, you mean?

Tricky, because custom and habit is like quicksand - the longer you're in it, the harder it is to get out (like smoking, for instance). However, on the basis of the evidence that people break habits every day, and make enormous changes to their lives, it could be argued that both willpower and human hope are at various times stronger than habit and custom. So yes, these things are more powerful, but they have to be actively used in order to gain any power at all. If they're not activated, then habit and custom is an easy quagmire in which to stay, day becoming day becoming night until the ending of the world.

Answer 2

"By custom.....by habit.......by law."

I suppose I have to say that yes.......law is more powerful. We adapt customs and we adapt habits......and many live by these religiously. But unfortunately, no matter what the habits are we adapt for ourselves...........the law will always rule. Governments are set up this way to keep society in tact.

I say unfortunately because as the world changes, needs change, habits are altered. Customs live on, but are not always taken into account when legalities play a role. But even as habits change........the laws adjust as well. Ammendments are made, new laws and statutes are formed.

Change is more powerful...........the law is more powerful. Is this a good thing? *shrugs* It definitely depends on the individual. But if customs and habits were the most important.............our world would be stuck in a rotation we could never overcome.

Answer 3

We pretty much become the people on how we were raised.
What culture and custom was instilled into you as a child.
Some cultures instill purely violence and hate and it becomes a part of that child's psyche. Sad but true.
Habit are formed, good or bad, and are partly due to the customs we were raised in.
Other habits are formed by the present society we live in, our day to day lives and how we react to them. Again, our character comes into play here.

The good news is that no matter what terrible customs or habits we were raised in, we can change those customs and habits. Not always easy but it can be done.

Answer 4

1. Yes, dying a horrible death and realizing it at the time it's happening.
2. The will to live against all odds.
3. The love for your fellow man and woman.
4. To be able to fight for what you think is right.
5. To love your country and the freedoms you have and to understand the price we pay for those freedoms.
6. To admire and respect those parents that raised their children the best they knew how.
7. Last of all the ability to confidence in ones self to accomplish anything he is capable of doing.
8. One more thing. Freedom to worship any religion.

Answer 5

Attitude, I would say. If you show an indifferent attitude towards a particular custom or culture of your community, the custom cease to function where you are concern

Answer 6

Castle Romeo

Answer 7

Determination

Answer 8

Before custom and before habit is your genes. Genes plays a large part in how you do things in life. I suspect in your subsconscious it reigned supreme.

Answer 9

Depends on your upgrowing , your immediate social environment

Custom will play a vital role when you have strict parents or you have to follow social and cultural beliefs

Habit is what you pick up outside these behaviours

Answer 10

Yes. Superman.