So according to what we're told in MBTI type literature, SJ types believe deeply in rules and tradition. But all humans fall into error.
Here's a sensitive question that I would be grateful for an SJ to shed light on. What is the thought process or rationalization process that an SJ would go through when tempted to break the rules. Like say, Adultery as an easy example, but any example will do.
Actually this is a mistake; that's only true of older guard SJs.
Newer breed SJs reveal that Si isn't following tradition just on principle--Te/Fe likes to have rules and a structure, but Si-ers aren't just brainwashed zombies who follow rules just because they should...Si seeks stability and consistency above all.
Si is just an attitude of playing it safe and sticking with the by the book method because it's established to have definitely worked in the past. It's not that RULES SHOULD ALWAYS BE FOLLOWED GRRRR, just that the consequences of breaking the rules are unpredictable, and that's not very safe, so it's generally to be avoided.
Now that we have so much more information readily available in the current age, SJs have gotten a lot smarter and caught up with the times. Since the collective body of human knowledge is larger and much more readily available now, SJs can still maintain a safe, measured, cautious approach without having to adhere strictly to "traditional values", and I think that's great. I know one ISTJ girl who thought she was INTJ for a long time because she thinks tradition for its own sake is stupid and had been misled by poor definitions of Si--and I don't blame her. Si is NOT concerned with tradition for its own sake.
This actually results in a fair number of SJs mistyping themselves because the literature on MBTI paints them as straight-laced penpushers, which is simply not the case anymore.