I doubt if any scientist would be much tempted to study things that Leaver cultures DON’T have or DON’T do. In the end, all you can do is read the literature that describes what Leaver cultures DO have and DO do—and draw your own conclusions.

It’s difficult (if not impossible) to draw SCIENTIFIC conclusions from NON-observations. What I have observed is that anthropologists DON’T report widespread discontent, suicide, depression, drug use, crime, and misery among Leaver peoples.

In the end, all you can do is challenge your friends to find some anthropologists who DO report widespread discontent, suicide, depression, drug use, crime, and misery among Leaver peoples; and of course I mean Leaver peoples whose culture hasn’t been destroyed by contact with ours; there’s plenty of discontent, suicide, depression, drug use, crime, and misery among the remnants of Native American peoples.

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