Common Parley

When great evil is committed,
The same moral language is used
To promote it, as when evil

Is resisted. And why is this?
If you want to do some evil,
Why act out your morality?

The easy, cynical answer
Is that it’s merely strategy,
The better to eat others with.

But it seems heartfelt, and it’s strange,
In that hypocrisy also
Obtains within the resistance.

There’s only one moral language,
And all behavior wraps in it.