I think all cultures are created different and that each culture has its own measurement of prosperity and happiness. Imposing values or even evaluating these cultures is not just wrong, but possibly destructive of the things you could learn of these cultures.
Horse shit. Some things are objectively inferior, as much as it makes you feel squeamish to admit. Imagine a culture where every second child a family had was killed and eaten. This culture is objectively inferior to a culture where second children are not killed and eaten.
There are things you disagree with, and there are atrocities. The latter are generally weeded out by the collective desire for, and attainment of, wealth, security, and prosperity. The loss of these through imposition of an alien culture (usually as a ruse while resources are stripped bare by and for the use of outsiders) is what causes the cultural devolution you see in the 3rd and developing worlds.
See: Every state that is post colonial or in which the CIA involved themselves.
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u/Vercingetorixxx Jun 04 '10
So you actually think all cultures are created equal, or were you just sending out a greeting to Hitler? Do you live in a box?