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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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  • im not sure, i mostly keep to myself. i once when i was younger always questioned morality but i grew out of that, i always wanted to aspire to what i considered the greater good, but when you put enough thought on it there is no such thing, and likely no such thing as good or evil, its all perspective.

    as for my moral bads, i used to lie alot when younger, but i grew out of that, it may have helped that my parents were strict and my dad would beat me if he so much as assumed i was lying. now i cannot lie very easily and if i tried it would be super hesistant or obvious.... but then again when im telling you a truth i dont want to tell you id also likely be hesistant as i weigh up the moral implications of telling you a truth that may hurt you. but i generally am honest to a fault in which my honesty will hurt you more than any lie will.

    when i was younger i likely had a urge to steal and was likely selfish and greedy, but again thats a thing of youth you grow out of. although my view on stealing is still split as when your needs are locked behind pay walls i kinda have sympathy for anyone stealing, it is their right to steal if they need to survive.

    i dunno, actual bads is hard.... i guess i lived off welfare for a good 16 years and you can consider that to be bad? ...but i was depressed most of my life and a shut in and that likely contributed to that. society would hate me most for my time on welfare so that is likely the worst i have done.

    there was also one time in martial arts where we did sparring and alot of other guys i felt wasnt relying on skill but trying to win by strength and make out they are better, so then i decided to use strength and go full out and i think i hurt a few people to the point of concussion and pissed some others off, that may have been another bad thing i did. but then some would say that is fair game and a needed thing in realistic martial arts practice.

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  • im not sure, i mostly keep to myself. i once when i was younger always questioned morality but i grew out of that, i always wanted to aspire to what i considered the greater good, but when you put enough thought on it there is no such thing, and likely no such thing as good or evil, its all perspective.

    as for my moral bads, i used to lie alot when younger, but i grew out of that, it may have helped that my parents were strict and my dad would beat me if he so much as assumed i was lying. now i cannot lie very easily and if i tried it would be super hesistant or obvious.... but then again when im telling you a truth i dont want to tell you id also likely be hesistant as i weigh up the moral implications of telling you a truth that may hurt you. but i generally am honest to a fault in which my honesty will hurt you more than any lie will.

    when i was younger i likely had a urge to steal and was likely selfish and greedy, but again thats a thing of youth you grow out of. although my view on stealing is still split as when your needs are locked behind pay walls i kinda have sympathy for anyone stealing, it is their right to steal if they need to survive.

    i dunno, actual bads is hard.... i guess i lived off welfare for a good 16 years and you can consider that to be bad? ...but i was depressed most of my life and a shut in and that likely contributed to that. society would hate me most for my time on welfare so that is likely the worst i have done.

    there was also one time in martial arts where we did sparring and alot of other guys i felt wasnt relying on skill but trying to win by strength and make out they are better, so then i decided to use strength and go full out and i think i hurt a few people to the point of concussion and pissed some others off, that may have been another bad thing i did. but then some would say that is fair game and a needed thing in realistic martial arts practice.

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