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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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  • A really interesting question, thanks. So my first thoughts ..

    I know that I pretty much lack a moral compass and that obeying laws and rules is something I mostly only do because of fear of being caught and punished, it’s a case there of weighing benefits and disbenefits. 

    I do not subscribe to moral absolutes nor any particular system which defines right and wrong, to me these things are relative and changabke in space-time, so for example much as I appreciate that some of my parent’s values and behaviours in the 60s were damaging to me and definitely believed by many today to be wrong the world was entire different then with a different set of values and truths 

    I don’t go along with organised religion but have done in the past and was very much brought up with Christian values imposed, it didn’t translate to me following any of that though 

    Ive learnt not to apologise for things I would do the same again, or which are very much core parts of my identity too

    and the worst thing I ever did ? There’s a few possibilities I could post which I’ll reflect on

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  • A really interesting question, thanks. So my first thoughts ..

    I know that I pretty much lack a moral compass and that obeying laws and rules is something I mostly only do because of fear of being caught and punished, it’s a case there of weighing benefits and disbenefits. 

    I do not subscribe to moral absolutes nor any particular system which defines right and wrong, to me these things are relative and changabke in space-time, so for example much as I appreciate that some of my parent’s values and behaviours in the 60s were damaging to me and definitely believed by many today to be wrong the world was entire different then with a different set of values and truths 

    I don’t go along with organised religion but have done in the past and was very much brought up with Christian values imposed, it didn’t translate to me following any of that though 

    Ive learnt not to apologise for things I would do the same again, or which are very much core parts of my identity too

    and the worst thing I ever did ? There’s a few possibilities I could post which I’ll reflect on

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