Fortunately, we don't have to. We can point out the good bits and bad bits and make a generally summary. I look mostly at human rights and social justice issues. For women, ethnic, religious & sexual minorities, it's better to live in secular liberal democracies with equal rights
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Then that’s not superiority. You can find good bits and make a general summary of ANY culture, that won’t make them superior or inferior.
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Replying to @BraveEpoch @HPluckrose
If all cultures are morally equal, there's no point in ever having any political discussion, or ever changing anything. Victorian England with young children working up chimneys and down mines was no worse than 21st century England where they get 1st class health & education.
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Replying to @SimonTuffen @HPluckrose
How you even define a moral culture without picking and choosing? how would you go from that to make a claim about superiority—while still ensuring questions of bias/relativism are accounted for? This is as silly as the “my country is better than yours” bs pushed by nationalists.
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Replying to @BraveEpoch @HPluckrose
It sounds as if you think the word "morality" has no meaning whatsoever.
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Replying to @SimonTuffen @HPluckrose
I do know the meaning of the word, thank you very much. I just don’t think you can apply that meaning to a loosely-defined term like “culture” AND start rating them from superior to inferior like it’s some sort of game show.
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Replying to @BraveEpoch @HPluckrose
You can look at each particular aspect of 2 cultures and if 1 of those cultures is morally superior in nearly every aspect then it's reasonable to say that that culture is overall morally superior to the other.
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Replying to @SimonTuffen @HPluckrose
Well I disagree completely, so there. Have a good one
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Then surely you wouldn’t care what culture you live in and cannot suggest ways to improve the culture you live in. I’m betting you do care and do think things could improve.
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Yes I do care. In some area I celebrate arab culture, in some areas I want it to improve. That doesn’t mean I think it’s superior or inferior. Because in the end, what I’m celebrating/improving are separated issues that don’t link to however you or I define what a culture is.
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If you separate your evaluation from social justice issues, of course it is. I am specifically speaking of these tho. I have already said every culture does food better than my own.
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