> That would still make it worth tackling. Why? In my opinion, only if you can replace it with something better... E.g. speaking English is culturally formed,

> That would still make it worth tackling. Why? In my opinion, only if you can replace it with something better... E.g. speaking English is culturally formed, but so what? I don't have kids yet, but I've thought a lot about how to raise any future children I might (well, want to) have. My current thinking is that I will raise them differently, boys and girls, according to what I see the most probably outcome (e.g. for each to be heterosexual). Sure, I might turn out to be wrong, but (1) you can't avoid putting some preconceptions in a child's mind (after all, that's what "raising children" means), and (2) as long as they can consciously choose a different path (e.g. "I'm actually gay, I'll optimize my life for that") I think that's mean-variance optimized choice. It's like, well your kid could be Mozart but you screwed them completely because you taught them guitar, stupid you... but then, there's no way you could have known, and a guitar is probably still better than complete lack of music, so it's a good choice overall.