№ 375: Burke's Slaw (it depends on how you slice it)

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. — Edmund Burke

Mr. Burke? Sir, with all due respect,
you are ignoring cause and effect.

What we do (or we neglect)
has little effect in retrospect.
Wherever, whenever man is detected,
surely then evil must be expected.

And, then, it must be understood,

what you say is evil may be my good.

In conclusion:
I've no wish to be rude in this.
but, Burke, you are platitudinous.