• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    3 days ago

    actual kings wear that garb as tradition dating back hundreds of years.

    That’s an appeal to tradition fallacy. Just because they’ve been doing crazy and wasteful stuff for a long time doesn’t make it objectively less crazy and wasteful.

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      3 days ago

      What exactly is wasteful about wearing some old clothes for a ceremony?

      A ceremony that brings in significant funds through tourism.