> Take a diverse set of cultures, remove the undesirable parts of each culture, and you're left with a less diverse but better set. Unless you think cultures ca

> Take a diverse set of cultures, remove the undesirable parts of each culture, and you're left with a less diverse but better set. Unless you think cultures can have no "undesirable" parts.... But each culture will judge different parts of other cultures as being the undesirable ones... Perhaps a better framing would be for each culture to judge for itself which parts of other cultures are worth copying... Except that the agents doing the actual copying are individual participants in the various cultures (and subcultures!), so attempts to enforce this sort of judgement uniformly on a culture as a whole is often a recipe for a lot of intra-cultural misery.