Everything boils down to this – let me share it as a personal story, but many others can, will and hopefully shall, relate to it (at least the grand finale) in the beginning I loved unconditionally – this is born when you are in an environment of love – hence growing up in middle-America where people still recognize others rights to be, hence are friendly, we develop a sense of camaraderie – in this state, as the verse says “All faults are concealed when there is love” we “hear no evil and see no evil” – we think all people are good – However, living in Africa, where evil is perhaps more prevalent than good, where rape and murder as common as the sidewalks, one realizes, that this is not the case – However, in point of fact, when we start become violently critical, as Churchill said, “a fanatic is one who cannot change his mind and doesn’t change the subject” the problem is not in the others but actually in ourselves – the reason is, by nature we all seek happiness, hence if we are indulging in criticizing, it means that our fundamental nature has changed – Nobody is born critical – then I read a profound concept from Jewish mysticism, it asks the question on the verse “God is pure of eyes, from seeing evil” – What does this mean? – Is God naïve? – When he said, “Do not murder” did he not think people murder? and if he didn’t think that, why did he say it? – However, there is a second state of love, in which you can be intellectually cognizant that there is evil but not emotionally angry – Anger means, I fear something and as it feels negative to be in the state of fear, my fear turns to hate – So the Godly way of living in a world where there is good and evil is to a. celebrate the good and b. deal with the evil, but not because you are fearful or angry (your faith should make you feel secure and your hope in Moshiach happy) rather, because a good person must not allow both the aggressor to be an aggressor, and certainly not allow the victim of aggression to become a victim