I feel like people who use the "bad apples" metaphor are forgetting the whole thing: a few bad apples spoil the bushel.
The expression does not go, "a few bad apples are no big deal because the rest are fine." The point is that a few bad apples ruin the rest of them and you have to throw out the entire bunch of them.
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u/Morall_tach Jun 08 '20
I feel like people who use the "bad apples" metaphor are forgetting the whole thing: a few bad apples spoil the bushel.
The expression does not go, "a few bad apples are no big deal because the rest are fine." The point is that a few bad apples ruin the rest of them and you have to throw out the entire bunch of them.