In the story “The Lottery”, the practiced tradition is simply continued to keep it alive. The danger is not the worst outcome of blindly following an ancient tradition, but the effects it causes, namely death. It is natural for traditions to change over time and it is important to continue learning and gaining knowledge about why you practice and participate in this tradition. However, by sticking to a single tradition and continuing to practice it without change, one brings the village back to the level of its originals, which causes tragic outcomes. It is clear that these villagers have completely forgotten the meaning of this traditional lottery. The main problem is that a consequence of this ignorance is that they continue to practice these traditions regardless and commit murder every year on June 27th. Shirley Jackson describes the dangerous and inhumane outcomes when a village blindly follows a tradition in an ignorant manner. The message in the short story "The Lottery" is prevalent in our everyday society and readers must learn from these stories, educate themselves on all their traditions that they are following as best they can, and modernize them as needed. Traditions continually revolutionize as does our world, we must not allow ourselves to ignore what we practice in our cities, towns and places of origin.