Tamil politics went down a slightly different path from the rest of India because of rationalism - but its embrace of democratic socialism meant that Reason was sent to the backseat in favour of Rebellion against Tradition for the sake of it, absent any grounding.

The Natural Law ethic, along with that of Hoppe's ethics of argumentation, provides a solid, irrefutable and unshakeable grounding on which the tradition of Reason can challenge the tradition of Custom.