My favorite hero was brer rabbit who audaciously used wit to foil his adversary brer fox. His basic strategy was to trick brer fox– less kindly, to manipulate him– for brer rabbit's own good and salutary purposes. That is, brer fox was made to do the right at the crucial moment by following his own worst motives. Thusly , the moment was redeemed by outwitting evil so that evil did good despite itself.