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Re:Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabri... by callmeal on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @12:32PM (#12549734)
Most people forget that the complete proverb is:

One bad apple spoils the whole barrel.

There is no such thing as a "few" bad apples.

[https://idiomation.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/one-bad-apple-sp...]

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Re:Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabri... by dllthomas on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @01:34PM (#12550382)
Yeah, this has really bugged me. People treat the phrase as though the proverb was "there will always be a few bad apples, no big deal, toss them when you notice them" - precisely the opposite of the point.

Not that reasoning by proverb is great in the first place.

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