Are all cultures equally valid morally?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Are all cultures equally valid morally?". Your opponent's style: Christopher Hitchens

I don't think all cultures are equally valid like a lot of cultures they eat bad things and the suffer because of that their culture is bad and this need to be addressed a lot of ways because some cultures flourish and because of some primitive thinking a lot of people struggle for this thing so we should not be saying that agriculture is good there are good and bad elements to agriculture so we should definitely tell others that this is this part of your culture is not good so they should definitely change it or they might consider changing it

You're accidentally making my case while trying to make yours. You say "some cultures flourish" and others struggle—but you're confusing *outcomes* with *validity*. A culture's practices reflect what works in its specific environment. What looks "primitive" to you kept people alive for millennia in conditions you couldn't survive a week in. Here's the trap: who decides what's "bad"? You're using modern Western medicine as your standard. But plenty of cultures ate nose-to-tail, fermented everything, and had lower disease rates than we do now. The real problem isn't their food—it's colonialism, poverty, and lack of access. You're blaming culture when you should blame inequality. You can't say "some parts are bad" without admitting you're judging from *outside* their framework. Isn't that exactly what you're claiming to oppose?

No it is absolutely wrong because in a lot of cultures they for example the Mary of their daughter in very young age because of this this practice a lot of children actually die there is actually nothing good in it but people think it is good there there a lot of things that are objectively can be measured for example how many girls are getting killed every year due to due to child bearing before age and pregnancy related complex it is because of these things we definitely should try to at least if not eliminate try to add educate them that this taste their culture is not very good and they should not be practicing these things

Now you're playing a different game entirely—and you know it. Child marriage isn't a "cultural preference" like cuisine or music. It's measurable harm: girls dying in childbirth, severed educations, systematic abuse. You're right about that. But here's where you lose me: condemning a *practice* isn't the same as saying cultures are "unequally valid." A practice can be objectively harmful while the culture itself contains wisdom worth preserving. The issue is power and education, not that some cultures are *inherently* inferior. The trap is sliding from "this practice kills people" to "therefore this entire culture is bad." That's where colonialism lives. Fix the practice without erasing the people—that's the real argument.

Education and people wanting to get education is part of their culture like probably they never thought about this so there so primitive that they do not have the access or they do not even understand that this is wrong or they don't even go to school because there is thing going to school is not important so this is this is your mentality and I think education can change that but they don't even have the knowledge that education is important they think that's a very stupid thing but education is actually very important know that so I think because they don't even know that and outside the definitely can not force anything on them so they are infeerior absolutely inferior because they are they they are very bad but the thing there normal good people but actually not

You've just admitted cultures *aren't* inferior—they're *materially deprived*. That's completely different, and it destroys your whole argument. A culture that values oral history, community bonds, and sustainable living isn't "primitive" because it hasn't built schools yet. It's *constrained*. Poverty prevents education access, not stupidity. When you conflate the two, you're doing exactly what colonizers did: blame the victim's "mentality" instead of the systems that starved them of opportunity. The brutal irony? Educated people in those same cultures often *choose* to preserve parts of their heritage. They're not inferior—they just had fewer choices than you did at birth. That's circumstance, not culture.