• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    You’ve got it backwards.

    The phrase is “A few bad apples spoil the bunch”. It means everyone around the bad apples is also bad, because they’re all around and do nothing about it. It’s not a defense, it’s literally explaining what your comment says.

    • Ithi@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      I think that poster is right in this context. It gets abbreviated and used as a defense of there just being “a few bad apples” and they they just drop/ignore the reset of the phrase.