Doesn't culture inherently also mean it helps a species? Maybe even an unwritten understanding of what culture means. Culture is something that lasts. Even beyond the species.
I suppose it probably should mean that, but I don't think it always does.
I can't think of a society of the far past who had negative cultural aspects, beyond what was their downfall.
*Successful society.
Well you are not wrong, a bad culture usually ends the society but then those that are ending the society take their bad culture and migrate to other societies and rinse and repeat.
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