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How evil are we??

I Sperg

I think I'd like to moot a potentially shocking social experiment here, after seeking the approval of the mods, and after some of the intellectual and moral heavyweights that frequent these pages have weighed in, of course. 

I'd like to pose the question, for anyone who cares to answer, "what is the worst thing you have ever done?"

And by creating a short term identity here, with a published password allow people to reply in complete anonymity...

Now, the very real danger is that, as happened to me once when I asked a new acquaintance that very question is that someone will confess a murder!*

But, I doubt it very much. I suspect that like my own "worst ever" act, you guys will turn out to be mostly pretty harmless.

But I don't know, it's only a hypothesis, need more data...

How safe for the participants would it really be?

Well we have some I.T expertise on this site as well as my own "dawn of the internet" experience, and I think we will all agree that unless this site logs ALL of it's traffic, it won't be traceable back to you, by any but the most complicated and forensic analysis conceive-able, and a simple murder probably won't even justify the resources need to investigate.

(You'd need to have stolen a lot of money or blown up a masonic lodge probably...)  

Bad idea, or fascinating opportunity?

EDIT: Thank you all for making this such an interesting and illuminating thread.

The size of the response was unexpected, and I've not had the capacity to respond to all comments that perhaps I would want to. I keep having to get up and do stuff.

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  • * one of three people who in my life have seen fit to confess that very crime (two were very much unasked!) to my face.

    WHY??

    Why didn't they keep it to themselves and save me so much learning about how to really make the right decisions about serious stuff...

    If you learn, as I unpleasantly have had to, about the nature of evil from M.Scott pecks book "people of the lie" and other sources (particularly psychologists who have the courage to "go there") which back up his findings very consistently in my experience, you'll find that Evil likes to "grandstand". 

    Some people won't like me saying it, but a Christian upbringing and a seemingly functional connection to my creator, was really helpful to me when making the requisite judgment calls about how to handle these people and process the (to me) horrible things I learned from them, and their situations.

    The trans people are RIGHT about wanting to limit human hatred, it takes us to horrible places.

    I've been annoyed a lot in my life, I'm prone to it, and occasionally expressing it too, but I quit "hatred" a while ago.

    I may oppose you, I may get annoyed at your antics, I might find you dull in your thinking, or grievously mistaken or simply wrong. I've even seen some people on this site show "evil intent", (which is quickly squashed to be fair, one of the reasons I think I can ask this question here, and that the data is useful to us as a community) but I won't lower myself to hating you.

    It'd be like hating myself, and I did that for a long time, and it was pointless MADNESS.

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  • * one of three people who in my life have seen fit to confess that very crime (two were very much unasked!) to my face.

    WHY??

    Why didn't they keep it to themselves and save me so much learning about how to really make the right decisions about serious stuff...

    If you learn, as I unpleasantly have had to, about the nature of evil from M.Scott pecks book "people of the lie" and other sources (particularly psychologists who have the courage to "go there") which back up his findings very consistently in my experience, you'll find that Evil likes to "grandstand". 

    Some people won't like me saying it, but a Christian upbringing and a seemingly functional connection to my creator, was really helpful to me when making the requisite judgment calls about how to handle these people and process the (to me) horrible things I learned from them, and their situations.

    The trans people are RIGHT about wanting to limit human hatred, it takes us to horrible places.

    I've been annoyed a lot in my life, I'm prone to it, and occasionally expressing it too, but I quit "hatred" a while ago.

    I may oppose you, I may get annoyed at your antics, I might find you dull in your thinking, or grievously mistaken or simply wrong. I've even seen some people on this site show "evil intent", (which is quickly squashed to be fair, one of the reasons I think I can ask this question here, and that the data is useful to us as a community) but I won't lower myself to hating you.

    It'd be like hating myself, and I did that for a long time, and it was pointless MADNESS.

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