The particular evil cited was the overall reaction to the pandemic and all the damaging nonsense associated with it.  

Why did some people just go along, and others, like me, didn't? 

First, and foremost, I realized over 30 years ago that the mainstream news isn't news.  So I turned the knob and stopped watching it.  All their state of the art brain-washing technology was wasted so far as I and my family are concerned.  We don't watch it. 

Why should we?  All it is, is a constant recital of commercially motivated death and sex reports designed to make people buy things and respond to bad news that they can do nothing about. 

Who needs that? 

Above and beyond that, we know who we are and we know our rights (and the government's limits) and we know the actual Public Law. 

When all the mandates and other nonsense came about, we printed up little credit-card sized notices of the actual law and gave them to the retail store managers and cops and anyone else who questioned us.  

Once they knew what the actual Public Law was, as opposed to the "corporate policy", they all knuckled under and we had no further problems, except for one "woke" business, which we boycotted, and which went under a couple days later.  No loss. 

Much to our glee, we discovered that it is against the law in Alaska and every other State we researched, for anyone carrying a concealed weapon to wear a mask in any public building or business location.  That lets my dogs out, for sure.  

And also helps ensure that armed robbers, murderers, and rapists will be stopped before they can kill and injure dozens of others without any danger to themselves.  

In the end, why weren't we susceptible to evil practices?  It's an attitude thing, but it is an attitude based on knowledge. 

We didn't listen to all the experts telling us what we had to do.  We checked the Public Law and said, basically, go stuff yourselves. 

We didn't listen to all the ads on radio and television.  As soon as someone said, "In these uncertain times...." we checked our six and didn't suffer any uncertainty.  As soon as someone said, "safe and effective", we asked ourselves --- "Safe and effective for what? Cleaning drains?"

Years and years of Bushwah Detection has benefits.  

After our middle son was arrested for breaking the arm of a gun-wielding assailant who tried to mug him inside a Junior High School -- he disarmed the nutcase and used a little too much force before marching himself and the actual offender to the Principal's Office --- it never occurred to us to send any of our children to "Public School".  That is, school for the Public, so that we all remain stupid. 

We realized right then that school administrators are too politically correct and too stupid to provide a safe environment for children, and we have never seen any contrary evidence in the twenty-five years since then.  

That also helped a lot, because as parents, we didn't have to put up with constant indoctrination and political influence peddling from the NEA members abusing their positions of trust and feeding our kids garbage at our expense five days a week.  

Our kids grew up learning to think things through for themselves, because we didn't consider it our job to do their thinking for them.  That in turn led to them having their own logical thought process and being able to calculate the price of beans in China all on their own. 

You can avoid Evil and avoid participating in Evil, by learning to recognize Evil for what it is and how it operates --- by lies, by presumptions, and assumptions, by "news" that isn't news, by "popular opinion" and "group think" and by half-truths, by assertions of authority and exercise of authorities that don't exist, by failure to think for yourself, by allowing the Merchants of Doubt to call you into question, by not settling things when they are wrong.  

You want to see how to avoid being suckered into evil?  

Go to the HealthyAmerican.org website and meet Peggy Hall.  She may not be tuned up on all the same wavelengths we are, but she got it right, simply because she knew who she was and knew her rights and held the government to its limits.  Let's hear it for all the plucky people in America who stood up for themselves and sounded the alarm.  

And let's learn the lesson.