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by eric_b 1870 days ago
Yeah, I got that part - and I understand why people would want to believe that because no one wants to believe a culture can have sub-optimal traits. But from where I stand, it is a cultural thing. It may be expedient, it may have sprung from a time when it was more advantageous than it is now, but there's no denying it exists.