What are the terms

A hungry person thinks of everything in terms of food.  A sick one in terms of health.  A bored one in terms of excitement.

It seems the human race is geared for thinking in terms of what they don't have, or perhaps what they want.  Of course there is also Gertrude's law.  Gertrude was Hamlet's mother.

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks". Gertrude's Law states that if a person is overly passionate about condemning a certain lifestyle choice, they most likely engage in that lifestyle secretly." 

Or perhaps they would like to if they only had a little more courage. We are creatures who seem to thrive on conflict.  When it doesn't exist there are soap operas, movies, stories, even back yard gossip to create a bit more of it.  There is even denial.

And maybe that is understandable.  "Bad" people doing "bad" things offer us the opportunity to empathize with the one being "hurt," or perhaps even with the saints and heroes who deal with the bad ones.

An awful lot of bad things have been done in the name of good.

That bears thinking about.