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This article, while interesting, is incredibly presumptive and totally non-scientific. As such, I consider it pablum. Surely no one culture is universally "bet

This article, while interesting, is incredibly presumptive and totally non-scientific. As such, I consider it pablum. Surely no one culture is universally "better" than another. Pick some metric(s), some cultures will be better, some worse. What's left unstated and undefended in this article is the metric for comparing the "goodness" of cultures. With that, at least we would have some quantitative things to compare -- then one could respectfully disagree on the metric, or offer alternate evidence for calculating the metric, or offer other metrics to consider.

alphaalpha101 9y ago
>Surely no one culture is universally "better" than another. Pick some metric(s), some cultures will be better, some worse. Firstly, one culture being better than another does not mean that it is better in every way. I'd rather be punched in the stomach than kicked in the balls, but clearly my stomach is still better off in the latter scenario, even if I'm worse off overall. Secondly, I'd really love to hear on what 'metrics' you think Arabian culture is better than say, German culture. Today's German culture, too, and today's Arabian culture. Too often people will say stuff like 'Nazis and 1400s scientific progress in the middle east'.