Are Institutions of Society Prone to Exercises in Superstition?

In a recent post, I showed how each of spirituality and religion can be premised on either of reasoning or superstition. I further showed how, whenever both are celebrated, always it is the case that superstition wins out. Why this always is the outcome?

Effort required for deployment of superstition always is much less than effort, ability, skills, knowledge, and expertise required for engagement with reasoning for arrival at solutions.

If society seeks to function on basis of reasoning, it cannot simultaneously celebrate superstition, that is, attitudes and policies that cannot be rooted in some evidence.

For illustration of feasibility of rooting of policies of society in superstition, as opposed to reasoning, let us juxtapose consequences of white collar fraud, and addiction to, as opposed to distribution of cocaine.

If a person is caught with some milligrams of cocaine, regardless whether they are a distributor or merely a consumer of cocaine, typically, they are sent to jail. Let us assume a consumer of cocaine, who in…