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I wouldn’t suggest that Christianized culture is necessarily superior, but I’m also not completely sure that every culture necessarily has the same value, and is equally worth preserving

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I think there is validity in debating the metrics by which a culture should be measured, but ultimately I think that the greater good is served by allowing each culture to determine its own path. This maximises diversity of approaches to problem solving and philosophy, things which are far from solved problems for humanity.

This is not saying that cultures shouldn’t evolve, adapt, and embrace changing environments, but rather that it is probably a disservice to humanity for one culture to informatically infiltrate and destroy another without an appropriate contest that would establish a hierarchy of fitness. Even then, what kind of fitness? What is a fair contest? Etc etc etc.

Best just to let it be, and let them work out their best way forward.

This implies that some cultures are in a position to judge the "value" of other cultures. I disagree with that very idea.

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