The lesson of the greatest  American Western film ever made is that the legend is more important than the actual facts about what happened. Of course, this whole idea of moral pandemic has been studied before. In 1973 an English (nationality, not discipline) professor by the name of Cohen came up with the five characteristics of moral panics. Pretty much all of them are familiar to us and to the Karen's of the world who want you to know that if you don't do things as they wish, they will use social media to make sure that everybody knows how bad a person you are...