[Blarg]

I feel the same way. It's a truer love anyway, by far, to love people despite their flaws, not because you imagine they don't have any. A pedestal is a painful place to fall down from and an uncomfortable place to stand anyway. It can be brittle and unforgiving to always believe the best of people and expect it.

I agree that understanding this makes the world vastly easier to understand, too. As detectives say, "Follow the money."