How evil are we??

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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  • Isperg.  The 3 brawny fellas that used electrodes connecting my soft flesh to the array of car batteries and capacitors never got anything out of me, so what makes you think I would confess my secrets in open forum by you exercising soft power and slight of hand?

    If evil is the opposite to love, then I am capable of shades of evil by that definition.  Moreover, I have proven myself capable of many curious feats and behaviours in my time....so I suspect that I have Gru-level propensities to 1950's-style cartoon evil - from time to time.

    Number (Cruncher)

  • soft power and slight of hand?

    As far as I was aware, that was not what I was doing, the reality is that I've been asking myself this question ever since I came here, and have spent at least a year wondering if I dare ask the rest of you...

    And whilst many of you have instantly raised the question about what is, and how does one Identify Evil, thinking it to be a serious stumbling block, no one has yet gone as far as stating that Evil does not not exist...

    Some might think that the human definitions of evil vary from culture to culture, person to person, etc. I've found in my own investigations that most people who give the problem any serious attention tend to come to very similar conclusions.   

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  • soft power and slight of hand?

    As far as I was aware, that was not what I was doing, the reality is that I've been asking myself this question ever since I came here, and have spent at least a year wondering if I dare ask the rest of you...

    And whilst many of you have instantly raised the question about what is, and how does one Identify Evil, thinking it to be a serious stumbling block, no one has yet gone as far as stating that Evil does not not exist...

    Some might think that the human definitions of evil vary from culture to culture, person to person, etc. I've found in my own investigations that most people who give the problem any serious attention tend to come to very similar conclusions.   

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  • Well yes, I tainted my answer with some silly humour, but I trust the core of my actual response to your good question can still be detected within there.