Doing the Right Thing

One thing I hate is when you try to do the right thing, and it winds up being the wrong thing. Some of that d*mned if I do and d*mned if I don't mentality, I know, but it's quite irksome when you truly have someone else's best interest at heart and they manipulate it against you somehow. Perhaps I'm still naive in my belief that people are inherently good, but it's revolting to think that they are all inherently bad, don't you think? Then why does it seem that so many of us seem to meet an excessive amount of these *ssholes??