Yes of course being a liberal is absolutely fine but only to indefensible. If you are being a suicidal liberal to predators like Momins and Commies , you are screwed. You are destined to perished. You see what happened to Buddhist Afghanistan, the Bengali bhodroloks in East Pakistan!! Never before, ever after. Irony is they were the frontrunner in the thikedari of liberalism since the time of Qutb al-Din Aibak but don't learn. If you don't learn from your history, you will pay from your geography.
This is quite a tempting discussion. though i feel this is off topic in terms of this thread.
Let me give my 2 cents:
Libreal , Trads is quite a shallow level to get tied to. Let us go deeper and ask ourselves what does any way of living tend to achieve? what is the end goal of following any school of thought - In my opinion its about IMPROVEMENT as a individual, it is about exploration of human potential and how things can be in harmony within you and around you. Traditions in my opinion must be the assimilation of knowledge of scientific nature, which works best for a human as per physiology and psychology - Body and Brain. If you can answer why lighting of pyre by a specific gender improves anything then yes - we should follow that tradition. Now we might not have answer to why a certain Tradition exists or what is the scientific rational behind it ,that does not mean such an explanation does not exist.
Now next question comes in how do we bring things to conclusion if we do not have any answer or simple we do not have the means to reach to an answer.
I think we should observe ourselves and generations before us , they went more with traditions than liberalisation. Are we seeing improvement in human race in right proportions that we should be seeing or things and though processes of today are just increasing entropy in our lives and society as a whole?. You might say that people are inventing things at a break neck speed but how does those things improve the quality of life, how does those things elevate the human intellect to achieve a greater good.
Whatever we follow should improve things across silos. Specially in terms of society i have less hopes on liberalisation. Tell a man to choose as he wants to and he will most probably destroy himself , freedom is any form is tough to handle. Our systems and scriptures made us learn how become ready with body and mind before taking things in our own hands. There is a procedure - there has to be one - There is need to learn and then ask the right questions.
