| I see. So it is your position that those who are living under despotism should remain there, it being a "cultural choice"? And that we should cease to bring medical treatment, investment, and education to the less developed world, because it is foisting our values and customs upon them, instead of letting them evolve according to their own lights. Has it occurred to you that part of social evolution is due to the influence of external contact, as when Asia Minor and Rome became Hellenized, or Gaul, Iberia, and Britain became Romanized? No culture flourishes solely by "following its own path". In the ancient world, for example, Phonecia created an alphabet, the Egyptians created geometry, and the Babylonians created the rudiments of astronomy. Greece flourished because it learned from others, and carried things further...... |
