Pied pipers in the garden of good and evil

The garden of good and evil is full of people who believe what they are doing is good – and that is scary.

Trying to sort out the truth when everyone is vehemently singing the praises of their own cause can become almost impossible.  My very own desires become the weakest link, the chink in my armor that allows me to be misled.

Programmed to respond to emotional pleas, I must be suspect of anyone using that in order to convince me.  The lowest common denominator is not even reliable because everything can be manipulated and people who believe that what they are doing is good – even when it is bad – can be just as convincing as everyone else.

Nothing is more heinous than bad things done for a “good cause.” 

And true evil is when bad people, themselves, think they are good.  They become the Pied Pipers that lead us all to ruin.