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Comment author: Lumifer 04 November 2014 02:29:31AM 6 points [-]

But one containing "enslave all women and use them as breeding cattle" could survive indefinitely

I wonder if you realize that a direct implication of this statement is that treating women as not cattle offers no advantage to a society..?

Comment author: CellBioGuy 04 November 2014 04:01:37AM 2 points [-]

Deleterious things get locked into fixation in genomes and biological systems all the time. I see no reason that deleterious traits cannot get fixed into cultures.

Comment author: Lumifer 04 November 2014 05:23:13AM 6 points [-]

Oh, they surely can. But that gives those cultures a disadvantage and maintaining this disadvantage "indefinitely" seems to be a stretch, especially given how cultures are malleable and tend to change anyway.

Comment author: MrMind 04 November 2014 08:53:48AM -1 points [-]

Indefinitely meant more "comparably to a culture lifespan" than "until the heat death of the universe".

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