This doesn't really match my experience with people. You can be dogmatic about, for example, code comments - and dogmatics are not thinkers. I used to work wit

This doesn't really match my experience with people. You can be dogmatic about, for example, code comments - and dogmatics are not thinkers. I used to work with a guy who was representative of this dogma. He'd give people a hard time if they didn't comment every line of code, and his own comments would be shit like: if (country == "Japan) // If the country is Japan total_cost = price // set total_cost equal to price else total_cost = price + tax // Otherwise, set total_cost to price+tax He thought this was great, and was upset when I'd tell him this is completely useless (comments don't provide any information over the code) and it's missing the one thing that would be good to actually document: why is Japan different? People like this heard somewhere that comments are good, and thus good people write comments, and if I am a good person then by gosh I am writing comments. They don't think about utility at all.