While it is true that notoriety offers certain benefits, it is not by any means confirmed that those benefits compensate for the disadvantages. - Elizabeth Bear

"Cultural hegemony is based on conformity," he said, after a pause long enough that she had expected to go unanswered. "Siege mentality. Look at oppressed philosophies, religions—or religions that cast themselves as oppressed to encourage that kind of defensiveness. Logic has no pull. What the lizard brain wants, the monkey brain justifies, and when things are scary, anything different is the enemy. Can come up with a hundred pseudological reasons why, but they all boil down to one thing: if you aren't one of us, you're one of them."

There were idiots on every planet who considered possession more important than morality.

Strike two for Utopia. The problem with the damned things always comes when you try to introduce actual people into your philosophical constructs.