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>trying to argue culture with Indian programmers and githubfags

"lol"

>>And why are you reading Dostoyevsky? He died years ago. Might as well burn every copy of his books and scratch his name from the history books. Erase any knowledge that such a man ever existed.

He is still relevant unlike dying languages.

So do you have a reason to preserve them or not?

>muh social darwinism
Come back when you turn 18. Culture gets shared all the time. A lot culture is based off what a different tribe or different group of people were doing and decided they liked it also. Why should the origins of culture be forgotten.

>Not all cultures are equal

And what gives you the right to make this judgement?

>Some cultures are worth preserving others are not
>You need to state a case for each individual culture

Why?

No one could ever possibly argue any culture to be deemed worthy of preservation that would convince everyone.

And, back to my first point, if it not every one we must convince, but one person, what gives him the right?

In pure text the size of a culture's works and myths would be negligible. The Decameron is less than 2MB.

How is a pre-Soviet Russian relevant in post-Soviet Russia?

>And what gives you the right to make this judgement?

Cultural relativism is a bad idea, would you be jsut as happy in North Korea as the US?

>No one could ever possibly argue any culture to be deemed worthy of preservation that would convince everyone.

You don't need to convince everyone thats impossible, just enough people so they actually do it, start with 1 person like myself

>but one person, what gives him the right?

When did I make this arguement?

Pre-soviet russia had a lot of arts done at the time. Lots of russians like Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky were excellent composers.

It's relevant in most of the world since everyone is a hedonist and nihilist and nobody finds meaning in anything anymore except gadgets and objects

google: nihilism and crisis of meaning