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There are still people living in Africa who do these weird today.
It's done to girls pefore puberty. The collarbone and rib cage deform.
Their culture isn't necessarily unstable. It could easily persists for thousands of years. The are far lesser animals that persisted for thousands of years. They are still multiple evolutionary steps above primates throwing feces at each other, and such primates still exist today.
There needs to be evolutionary or environmental pressure for them to change or go extinct. This can be competion with or influence by other cultures.
We aren't gods and any action we would take just amplifies any instability in the culture
We are living with them on the same planet. It's not like we are observing primates on another planet and study them for entertainment or science. If unsanitary conditions in "shitholes" cause an outbreak of a new virus, one that instead of 3% death rate has a 60% death rate, it could potentialy screw us over.
In fact, our society is the more unstable one. We rely on technology. We have nuclear weapons and invite vastly incompatible cultures to live in close proximity. And somehow we deluded ourselves into believing that we are above nature and evolution.
>In fact, our society is the more unstable one. We rely on technology. We have nuclear weapons and invite vastly incompatible cultures to live in close proximity. And somehow we deluded ourselves into believing that we are above nature and evolution.
Our society is unstable for a bunch of reasons one of which is when you go on these adventuring wars you weaken your own culture. You expose large swaths of your population to these alternate cultures and they end up becoming entangled with your own.
I think that has more to do with people asking to take our enemies in as refugees. If we drone strike cities in foreign lands and then invite their citizen to live among us, of course there is entanglement.
I don't think this would be an issue if we'd openly embrace imperialism (for example, stop pretending we're over there to spread democracy) and lose empathy for people we have little in common with.
With imperialism there are two paths:
1) You go whole hog and completely annihilate the system your taking over down to the last man. This doesnt work out because to do that you destroy everything no spoils of war. Additionally everyone else sees you do this and immidately forms alliances against you potentially to the point they rival your own power because you became an existential threat.
2) You dont go whole hog you absorb the competing system into your own after a short military conflict and concession. Well you see the problem with this? You end up integrating this alien culture into your own. Now they have power within your system, voting rights, some level of autonomy, there's cultural population exchange, people start mixing because of proximity and necessity now to integrate these two systems etc etc... Eventually the empire does this enough to the point that there is no core dominant culture or value system and is rife with foreign entanglements and it destroys itself.
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