Traditions plays an enormous role in our life and society, it is what makes a culture unique which passes down from generation to another. Traditions are they way a certain group of people think and act which has a significant meaning to their life. Nowadays, we live in a cultural diversity world where rituals and the authority such as the government sometimes clash together due to cultural indifference. However, people can be too stuck up on tradition that can often lead to corruptions or dictate their life on an unconstructive path. Often times, people are usually scared of changes and scared that people would look at them differently due to their beliefs and practices. Unfortunately, some people are always going to endure pain intensely in order to keep the others satisfied because that is how the world operates. In fact, society was never really balanced; there was always the fortunate and the less fortunate, which led to the formation of slavery. Slavery is the perfect example of how traditions or cultures could be very destructive both mental and physically besides the fact that it was abolished after a couple of hundred years. During that time, the only way for the non-black to make a living was by sacrificing and slaughtering someone that doesn’t have the same skin color as theirs, which also falls under the category of racism. In fact, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Le Guin, Ursula K. and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson both brutally demonstrates that people would rather stays unobtrusive in their current situation then addressing the problem which is doing what’s right and having a balanced society where people doesn’t have to suffers for the content of others. Both “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” and “The Lottery “contains dark truths and will compare the two and proves how traditions and authority can often lead to downfall of a city. In “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” the author mentions that there was a child referred as “the terrible paradox “ in which all of the citizens of Omelas knew about but only a few address the issue by leaving the city. The city’s contentment is based on the life of that on