Max Castle

A right to defense is different from a right to survive.

then patchwork doesn't seem to follow if we accept the strange notion that cultures have rights

Yay, I mean 'rights', as in justification that people are more or less willing to accept.

even then, doesn't seem like patchwork is based on the acceptance of justifications in any way, even if they are possible between cultures, which is also dubious (isn't this why patchwork is a ""thing"" to begin with?)

I thought patchwork *was* the 'death-match by natural selection'?

It is. Trying to make patchwork inevitable.