antiquitatem

But that argument is flawed anyway; both the argumentum ad antiquitatem and argumentum ad novitatem are logical fallacies.

In fact, it's so famously not a meaningful argument that it has its own fancy name: argumentum ad antiquitatem.

Burning witches is older than the US too, if we're gonna get all argumentum ad antiquitatem in here.

This is just one of the flaws in the argumentum ad antiquitatem approach.

Ethics cannot be derived from argumentum ad antiquitatem or argumentum ad populum.

Or your argumentum ad antiquitatem should only apply to porn?

No, you literally made an, if we want to get technical, argumentum ad antiquitatem.

Argumentum ad antiquitatem What I am pointing to is a common thread.

Tangently related to: appeal to tradition, argumentum ad antiquitatem, argumentum ad antiquitam, appeal to antiquity, and appeal to common practice.

Wow, that's the most obvious argumentum ad antiquitatem I read this year.

Argumentum ad antiquitatem is a real thing.

But I don't think it is argumentum ad antiquitatem though.

That which "dominates" the other is strictly through force, historically speaking, and thus you are unfortunately succumbing to argumentum ad antiquitatem.

Citing "how things got worse in the past to eventually get better" sounds a little ad antiquitatem to me.

This is a logical fallacy known as argumentum ad antiquitatem or an "appeal to common practice".

Aside from your argumentum ad antiquitatem, I think it is rather presumptuous to speak for "society" this way.