Perfect: The Word/Our Language

I found the following information in: The Random House Thesaurus, College Edition. Edited by Jess Stein and Stuart Berg Flexner. Copyright 1984 by Random House, Inc.

perfect adj. 1 Can you draw a perfect circle?: exact, accurate, precise, true, pure, correct in every detail, flawless, unerring, strict, scrupulous, faithful. 2 The athlete was in perfect health. The child has been a perfect angel all day: faultless, flawless, without defect, unblemished, unimpaired, undamaged, complete, whole, entire, unbroken, finished, absolute, thorough, pure, consummate, unqualified, unmitigated, impeccable, matchless, unequaled, unrivaled, ideal, supreme, peerless, superlative, sublime; blameless, untainted, immaculate. -v. 3 The scientist perfected a method of desalting seawater: bring to perfection, develop, complete, achieve, accomplish, effect, realize, evolve, fulfill, consummate.
Ant. 1, 2 imperfect. 2 faulty, flawed, defective, blemished, impaired, ruined, spoiled, damaged, incomplete, deficient, unfinished; partial, mixed, impure, qualified; inferior, poor, bad, worthless, Informal awful, Slang lousy.

Did you know that if something (or someone) is not perfect, then it is (or they are) "ruined, spoiled, impure, bad or worthless"? What does this information say about the culture that produced it, and how would this culture's perceptions/decisions be affected by the judgements innately linked to this word/concept?