Oh, I agree with everything you said regarding faith-based culture and all the rest of it. Perhaps I should have stated that upfront.

My comment was geared towards Nic's particular conclusion here, which as far as I can tell seems to be an intersection of two mutually exclusive outcomes. I don't begrudge him or anyone else for exploring these threats. System security and threat modelling benefits more from the realists and pessimists than the eternal optimists.