@Forestofenchantment @wertimer If he believed in rebirth, this would actually be a defensible position, but as far as I can tell he explicitly writes it off as an accretion.
The point he's trying to make is that everyone is served best by fulfilling the role they're born to do, no shoving square pegs in round holes, which is a fine idea, but the way he's using tradition to justify that is wrong.