Like people, all analogies are imperfect. The argument here wasn't for ridding discernment, but rather don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Not all apples are good. Don't eat bad apples, right? Rotten, worm infested, give that back to nature.

There is no one analogy that works in all circumstance, just as maximum have opposites that are equally true, and there is likely not one unified theory of everything.

I am not invalidating your question, but I wonder how we partial this. There is always a way of eliminating stuff. I think I would give a saint cigarettes. The crimes Bill Cosby was accused- pretty horrendous. The Bill Cosby show was still wholesome. I liked it, on many levels. A lot of people participated in making a great show. Not just the other actors, but writers, film crews, grips... In boycotting the show, they don't get royalties, or even recognition for their hard work. There is a whole generation that will fail to see a solid good family in syndication. The humor and loves goes away. There was humor. There was love.

And there was bad.

I don't know. This conversation interests me because I struggle with it so. I am estranged from family because I chose this path of limited interaction. I could not tolerate the offenses. Were they truly evil? No. Just people with problems. They got me to an age of discernment, and I here I am. Likewise, I am done with organized religion. I have experienced harm and can still point to harm being done. I don't know where to point where there is no harm, no accidents, no humanness...

It's funny, or ironic, to me, I can find all kinds of compassion and understanding for the clients in my office, but less so for family, and even less for myself. When I defer to my own judgement, I am often left angry, disappointed, sad, lonely...

In the end, I suppose we drink from the cup available to us. I bet we don't know how truly dirty our cups are. It does give water the flavor. Make lemonade? I think i am holding water, but my cup is dirty and broken. Maybe that's why there are so many edicts warning to be careful of judgement. Don't stop thinking, just be more aware? There is a time for judgement. Evil persists when good men do nothing? No, it persists when men do nothing because they no they're equally flawed. Everyone is flawed. That's why we practice. Your question wasn't flawed. The actors were.