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CMV: All Cultures are Not Equal

Edit: To be especially clear based on comments, I am stating that all cultures are not of equal value. Some inherently are better or worse than others, and that while we may disagree on the means of assessment, we should not flatly deny that it is possible to arrive at a value judgment after comparisons. 

One occasionally hears sound bites like “all cultures are equal” these days, and it seems to me like an inherently flawed proposition. All cultures are different in some respect-else they would not be distinct cultures-but it does not follow to me that they are equal according to any metric.

From any universalist moral standpoint, which is to say almost all of them, some things are right (human happiness, for instance) and some things are wrong (murder, rape, theft, etc). Since cultures have distinct differences, it follows that some must be better at achieving a desirable ratio of good:bad than others in a larger number of circumstances. 

If we value different cultures not based on any relation to their impact on the human condition, but instead something like an appreciation for variety, then I still can’t see how all cultures are equal. Some are inherently better at surviving or perpetuating themselves, for instance, which could be a virtue in and of itself. 

I just don’t see how you can make the claim “all cultures are equal” reconcile itself with any value system in a coherent way.
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> One occasionally hears sound bites like “all cultures are equal” these days, and it seems to me like an inherently flawed proposition.

If you're trying to rate culture on a scale of 1-10, you're going to have a bad time. 

A culture is not something you measure. It's just something that is. 

When people say that "all cultures are equal" what they're trying to argue, is that all cultures matter. That you shouldn't dismiss them out of hand because they are X, or don't have Y. 

Because that's not the point. The point is that the culture is a human product that takes decades, even centuries to form. You can't measure that against others. 

It's like art. You don't sit there and rank one piece of artwork from the one period of time to the next.