We are unfortunately saddled with "religion" as the archetype of this behaviour. Perhaps we could call it, "social virtue mythology". What is a social virtue

We are unfortunately saddled with "religion" as the archetype of this behaviour. Perhaps we could call it, "social virtue mythology". What is a social virtue mythology? It answers the following questions: * Why is there evil in the world? (ie., why arent things perfect) * How do you overcome evil? (ie., become perfect) * Who is good? Who is evil? * In what or who should I place my trust? * etc. Today we can see many such competing virtue mythologies.... Why is there evil in the world? New Atheists: Religion; Feminism: Patriarchy; Socialists: Capitalism; Idenity-Woke: Essentialism. Personally I regard this as wholely "mythological" because the questions these social-virtue systems are designed to answer "take place" in a utopian/dystopian reality. Ie., many people eventually discover that there is no need of this type of mythology: reality is itself flawed. We aren't "owed" a utopia, and thus there is no question to answer. Here, in agile then we see these patterns even in this thread. Some commenters are still trying to answer the question, "why isnt software design/construction perfect?" as-if there can be a virtue/vice answer, ie., "because we have failed to...". Rather, no. These problems are irresolvable. The reality of software is intrinsically broken: there is no customer to give you the requirements, there is no habit which elicits them, there is no mechanism to build reliable software, and so on. Many are extremely loath to confront this reality, especially as adolescents; ie., that they are powerless to build their utopia. The really-existing world has irresolvable contradictions that admit no virtuous resolution.