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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  • See, this is a very tough question for me!

    Legally speaking, I've done crimes, but those crimes were downloading music and underage drinking. Could be worse, right?

    Morally speaking, the worst thing I've done is being mean to people on purpose. So relatively speaking, I'm probably not particularly evil.

    But by some other people's moral codes, I'm REALLY evil- I like heavy metal and Dungeons & Dragons, I'm queer, I support trans rights, I'm a woman who works and doesn't want children. And I'm a leftie. All those things are horrifying to a lot of people. So it's pretty subjective, I suppose, even though I would disagree that any of those things really do make me evil.

  • That last sentence is by my standards, outstandingly wise and insightful. 

    Some of what you write looks like "imperfection" from my perspective of course, and some of it "sinful" of course, but I'll get around to helping you pick the specks out of YOUR eye right after I've got the bloody great plank out of my own, of course!

    In truth, you are one of the posters who I find very pleasant and sane to read, and whilst (rightly) I have no "power" to "Judge" your being evil or not, I evaluate you based on your conduct and prose, as apparently quite far indeed from being "evil". For whatever value my current opinion may hold..     

  • Sinful and imperfect is part of human nature. I can live with that!

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