This is a classic example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias Many forms of bad behavior or gene

This is a classic example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias Many forms of bad behavior or generally useless approaches can be justified by "oh well some other people did it successfully, why cant we?"