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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Trisha over 2 years ago

I think it's hard to call someone evil because there's so much to consider

A lot of killers and people who abuse have had horrible abuse and issues growing up. It doesn't make what they did or do right but it explains some of what caused them to become unwell and kill, abuse, or whatever

I don't like what they did or become but I can't justify calling them evil because they went through rubbish and it twisted them or they have an imbalance in the brain or something like that

Not my place to judge or call them evil. I've had a family member who started fires and probably appeared evil or bad to other people but she was mentally sick, hence she now resides in a mental hospital

There's a reason for everything we do and it's not as simple as being evil

Lots of factors to weigh up

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Trisha over 2 years ago

I think it's hard to call someone evil because there's so much to consider

A lot of killers and people who abuse have had horrible abuse and issues growing up. It doesn't make what they did or do right but it explains some of what caused them to become unwell and kill, abuse, or whatever

I don't like what they did or become but I can't justify calling them evil because they went through rubbish and it twisted them or they have an imbalance in the brain or something like that

Not my place to judge or call them evil. I've had a family member who started fires and probably appeared evil or bad to other people but she was mentally sick, hence she now resides in a mental hospital

There's a reason for everything we do and it's not as simple as being evil

Lots of factors to weigh up

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I Sperg over 2 years ago in reply to Trisha

I believe that once you stop thinking of certain people as being essentially Evil, but see them as being "in the grip of evil" you stop wanting to kill or banish them, and start wanting to actually work the real problem..