I heard it explained this way once: Good deeds, while good, cannot compensate for bad deeds that are still a problem. The only way to account for something bad that is happening is to stop it, not to try and drown it out with good deeds. This is because suffering and happiness are not drawn from the same pool, and so long as you're generating a lot of suffering, you won't be able to out-happy the suffering.

This can definitely apply to people.

But what about groups of them?

Does the actions of some members of a group affect the outside view of the group of a whole? If they do bad, while others do good, does what you say still apply to the group?

If there’s a part of the group I’m associated with being complete fuckwits and I decide to be a better man and actually help a good cause because that’s what a human being does, does that make me a fraud or a lobbyist?

I can agree with you with your statement when talking about individuals, whose actions are guided by their own conscience (or lack of it). But groups are umbrellas have many individuals with varying personalities, morals, knowledge, and ideals. The only thing they have in common is supporting or opposing some cause or topic.

Obviously, it would apply if the point of the group is to be bad. But I doubt that bronies were designed from the start to bigoted assholes like a lot of people believe.

It’s a neutral stance. A brony is a guy who like MLP:FiM. That’s it. There’s nothing bad about that. But there’s nothing truly good about that, either.

Hating bronies is like hating a water bottle fan club because scummy Jack and his clique over there fetishizes rape.

Then the club tries helping the local shelter and people accuse them of steering attention away from ScumJack and hates them because of that.

“ScumJack is scum. And he’s a water bottle fan. So that means that water bottle fans are scum, too!”

Come on! Is it the group’s fault? Why hate them? Why not focus on ScumJack?

When DWM targeted JJ and his followers, that was fine in some ways. But when people started using it to say that ALL bronies are sick fucks just because a large group of people actually are sick fucks and began foaming at the mouth with rage, then it became a problem. 

It’s absolutely stupid.

I hate this drama.

In short, Anon. I can see what you’re going for. But ultimately in context, I don’t agree with you.