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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  • I've done some bad bad things, I'm not going to disclose what. But it's bad enough for me to contemplate suicide because my conscience won't let me forget it. 

  • Suicide is just layering bad on bad. You seem to be a real functioning human, an a viable alternative to suicide must surely be to spend the rest of your life, doing acts that restore your life's moral balance?

    Which from my position of attempting such things, has definitely made my life have value to me again. and of late, I see that others value me too. But I still feel deep guilt for the bad things I have done, but they are done, and there's a future in which I can strive to do better. 

    Keep battling away there Robert, you do look like one of those who will "come out the other side better than you went in"... 

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  • Suicide is just layering bad on bad. You seem to be a real functioning human, an a viable alternative to suicide must surely be to spend the rest of your life, doing acts that restore your life's moral balance?

    Which from my position of attempting such things, has definitely made my life have value to me again. and of late, I see that others value me too. But I still feel deep guilt for the bad things I have done, but they are done, and there's a future in which I can strive to do better. 

    Keep battling away there Robert, you do look like one of those who will "come out the other side better than you went in"... 

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