Despicable people will exist without superstition, but superstition has an unprecedented ability to allow good people to feel okay about doing horrible things.

Despicable people will exist without superstition, but superstition has an unprecedented ability to allow good people to feel okay about doing horrible things. If superstition can be said to be a tool of the truly despicable, then we must remove it. Perhaps without superstition those men would find another way to rile up a crowd into burning more women, but taking that tool from them is sure as hell worth a shot. What is there to lose?