> There are certainly better ways to live than the ones handed down to us over millennia, and I think we ought to fine-tune what we've been given and learn from other cultures' traditions.

Looks like we agree that the top level comment is wrong about "optimal set of rules that would more than likely produce the best outcome for your life", i.e. looks like you're also saying that these rules are not optimal and you're open to improving them.

I'm not sure why are you mentioning "discarding everything" in this context.