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RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)This is a great point and the answer is that there are layers to civilization. Many of the outer layers globally are Western it is true. Almost everybody in the world lives under some form of European-originated legal system, for example -- either Roman civil law or English common law. It is the inner layers of Western civilization that did not so readily reproduce themselves that need our special efforts to preserve. ...