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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heap Thaumaturgist" data-source="post: 190899" data-attributes="member: 4516">Definately applicable to a good culture.Then again, we have to realize that "good" is a relative term based on the moral constructs of the main hegemonic structure influencing whoever's perception we're using to make the determination.In a culture whose context is much less economically stable than our own and who survives only through great struggle and the absolute cohesion of all within the society in terms of ideology and behavior then punishment which is severe and swift and a situation offering very little in options may be "good".To us drinking camel milk might be disgusting and branding theives before banishment might be a bit extreme, but it might be what this 'barbarian' culture does to exist.-- HT</blockquote>