Seed NewsvineI'd like to discuss the concept of teaming up with evil. And I don't mean the kind where, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. No, I mean when a good person or a person that may at least think of themselves as good, ends up selling out their own moral fiber to evil.
In short, if someone makes a claim to you and you don't validate it, you may find out later that by you're failure to substantiating their claim may put yourself on the wrong side of a fight. The side that is evil.
I will give you an example. Let's say you are a doctor. Someone comes to you for marriage counseling. During that time they reveal, they never really desired help in counseling. In fact, much later they tell you they are being 'abused' without ever giving details or examples. Instead they claim they are being abused not physically, but mentally. Still no details, just generalizations. But you are a doctor and your client is paying you to meet with them. Why would you doubt the sincerity of your client?
Over time they end up in court and they want you to stand by them. Your time is money so you are 'paid' to attend. Your patient or should I say 'client' expects it. You now have a vested interest in that client to protect them as best you can.
Let's assume you as the doctor have met the alleged abuser of your patient. The alleged abuser tells a completely different story. This is where teaming up with evil comes into play. An objective outsider would think, "did you conduct due diligence?" No, you had not. You just took the word of your client... I mean patient. Everyone will assume you gathered information to substantiate a claim, when you did not.
Bottom line, you are figuratively in bed with someone intending to game the system. Later when they get what they want from you, you are cast aside, only now you realize... You were on the wrong side. But you are a doctor... you move on, as long as your name or ethic is not called into question.
What was once mildly on principal and caring is now just business to you.
Let's say you are a boy friend of the someone having an affair on their husband. Now you are being told some of the same lies, some different. You too are now all too glad to get close to someone that "needs you". You are in bed with evil. Later when they get what they want from you, you are cast aside, only to realize... You were on the wrong side.
Let's say you are a law firm. You HAVE no choice but to represent your client. And your modus operandi is to not just de-emphasize the importance of your clients adversary, but to believe in the lies your client tells you and use those lies as best you can to paint your opposition as something they are not. Of course what do you do when your own client zings you too? They could decide not to pay you one day and find a way to walk away without paying you. But as a large large firm without anyone person to take the hit... you just move on. The lives you spent time and effort to hurt and destroy are not on your conscience are they? Are they?
And then there are the friends, allies. You've got weeks, months, perhaps years of friendship that may have been only incidental but now suddenly seems so important to the person perpetrating the evil. Now they need a friend and they need you to believe them. Human nature forces you to accept that your friend needs you to believe what they say. Oh the web of lies we weave.
One can ask them self, "What does it feel like to be on the side of evil?" if only they knew they were on the side of evil.
