You're absolutely right! Many cultures have different attitudes than ours. Pain is an excellent example. Are you aware that it's also a cornerstone of Western

You're absolutely right! Many cultures have different attitudes than ours. Pain is an excellent example. Are you aware that it's also a cornerstone of Western Imperialist Medicine that the patient has the right to refuse any treatment, such as palliative treatment for pain? In this way, our attitudes are not forced on other cultures. Members of other cultures are offered personal choices. Though I recognize that some regard this as a cultural imperialist imposition on cultures where personal autonomy is not valued. Personally, I think that western cultural imperialism has drastically improved lives through items such as anti-retrovirual drugs, mosquito nets, and drinking water filters. But I understand that some might choose to value traditional ways of life and ways of knowing and folk beliefs - and the attendant human suffering and deaths - over imposing our cultural that values human lives and the reduction of suffering. It's just perhaps possible that, having carefully considered this issue, and aware of the historical context wherein this is not assumed but thought about, some people may have concluded that this is an acceptable imperialist imposition. Thank you very much for your kind, caring, thoughtful ideas!