Pay Pariah Cults?

But the more cultures that do this, the smaller the variance across the set of all human cultures, which then makes it harder for cultural natural selection to improve humanity, or to adapt it to changing conditions. Iran is now seen as a pariah for being the only nation that allows organ sales, but it might instead be praised if seen as making a bid to induce contrary cultures on the topic. And in a nutshell, that’s why our dominant world civilization will likely fall over the coming centuries, to be replaced by very different cultures which reject and discard much of what our culture holds dear.

Author: Robin Hanson

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