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> "better"

That's the issue.

You may be unable to Google examples of your own culture you disagree with, and the ones from "other" cultures you disagree with, you consider yourself enlightened and "know" your take is better, so they don't count as good examples either.

That said, I imagine you could imagine yourself role playing as, say, an authentically devout member of the Taliban, searching online, and finding examples of "worse" and "better" that don't match the ones you here are finding.

Now, you'd likely argue the Taliban believer is misinformed, and that "better" is some universal thing. That's all well and good when "better" seems modern and "worse" seems archaic.

It's more problematic when the differences are not what UN calls "universal", but values system based, from a value system that is internally coherent however different.



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