The most dangerous place in a society is not a lack of morality, but the act of turning all the issues that should be solved through institutions into moral problems. When power lacks constraints, people don’t discuss checks and balances; they talk about moral sages and perfect exemplars. When rules have loopholes, people don’t investigate the mechanism; they focus on people’s hearts and character. When suffering keeps occurring, people don’t look for root causes; they praise patience and sacrifice. As a result, institutional problems become moralized, power problems become personalized, and structural issues become emotionalized. In the end, people become increasingly skilled at judging good and evil, but increasingly incapable of analyzing patterns, designing rules, and improving institutions. The true essence of modern society’s progress is not finding more noble people to manage society, but building a system that can operate stably even when faced with ordinary people—and even with bad actors—so that power is constrained, responsibility can be traced, individual rights have boundaries, and society runs according to rules rather than personal will. What truly determines a society’s long-term fate has never been moral slogans, but institutional structures.