Are any of you a little bit bad?

[Asta19]

Not sure anyone will admit it! But I committed a few very minor crimes when young and stupid. I’ve dodged the odd bill (when I was a broke single mum).Told a few lies here and there. Got very satisfying revenge on an ex. I’ve read a few threads these last few days where these things have been covered and people have been horrified and said how awful the behaviour was or could be for example. Is literally everyone (except me) on MN that honest and straight and “good”? It seems unrealistic somehow! I don’t think I am an exceptionally bad person. I would never knowingly or deliberately cause another person pain (except asshole ex above!). I do actually try and help others when I can. Although I am definitely not a saint and have my flaws. But I think that’s just human nature. I’m just curious to see if anyone will admit to not always being as good as they could be,

No i'm really good! Always pay bills, I've never cheated on anybody, or even got with their exes or brothers, never shoplifted, never done drugs apart from a puff on a joint (didnt like it) only smoked once. Had a couple of speeding tickets - 36 in a 30.

I just get my kicks elsewhere!!

I felt guilty for taking a small 5p bag at the self service and it wouldn't through easily on the scanner so I just took it.
did feel guilty but I thought if all the bags for life I have bought in the past and how much I'd spent in there already , but I still felt bad. Nobody was about to check.
I could never be a shop lifter! I am way too honest ; didn't have a drink till I was 18, never taken any illegal drugs, never shop lifted ( till then)!I was brought up to be too honest I think. My parents were big on being good and towing the line!

The more I think about it, I feel like having a "conscience" kind of doesn't make sense from an evolutionary perspective. I wonder why we're like that.

@WhoWants2Know

It does make a sense from an evolutionary perspective because if nobody had a conscience (internalised morality born out of social norms) then the co-operation needed to raise families and build civilisation would not exist because we would be too busy robbing each other to build a life. It is our conscience and desire for social inclusion that make us able to advance, not our cut throat capitalist narcissism as the noise makers would have us believe. It is our ability or get on, not our ability to fight and kill one another.

Well I am positively evil then.. Couldn't possibly say

Oh probably lots! But one particular one springs to mind, a few years ago picked up an ordered grocery shop from Waitrose. Got to the car with it to discover a few items missing, sent dh back in to sort it out. Whilst he was back inside the shop doing that, realised that they had given us a bag of someone else's shopping which contained a great deal of expensive cheese!

No, I didn't take it back, and enjoyed every last cheesey mouthful.

Oh god
Break the speed limit regularly
Stole from my place of work and got the sack
Lied
Took so much cocaine
Hit a persons car and drove off
Probably loads more .
You wouldn't think it now tho . I'm nearing 40 , mother or 2 kids . I live a very well behaved life .

I’m very good now (most of the time, but not all) but I definitely wasn’t in the past. In hindsight it was due to combination of shit things happening to me and I think my behaviour was a reaction to this. It had no logic, I liked the buzz, the feeling I got and I didn’t give a shit about long term effects or moral issues.

I am incredibly surprised no MN self ordained angel “I dragged my child 8 miles back in the rain to Tesco to confess to the manager because my child stole and ate a grape” has been on to tell us we will go to hell and our children will end up in care. They must be twitching !