Narcissists and sociopaths leave a trail of suffering in their wake and a lot of what they do isn’t illegal. Emotional and verbal abuse generally isn’t a crime.
Buy the patent on a useful drug and raise the price by 50 times
Crafting laws and regulations that are designed to be gamed/exploited exclusively by thw very most elite, at the expense of the lower income segment of the community or society?
Yeah, the persons who create the law have a way bigger license to be assholes than the rest of us. Revoking regulations that prevent predatory lending behavior is way worse than gaslighting a person to insanity, murdering them, and then eating their corpse. (Which I promise I haven’t done.)
Murder is still illegal. But only if you get caught.
Jan had told him many times
It was you to me who taught
In Jersey, anything’s legal
Long as you don’t get caught
I think that the guys who took pictures, laughed and mocked him while a man was drowning some years ago were pretty bad.
Although this behavior would have been a crime where I live.
This may seem like a political answer, but on the other side this is the President of the US stating his stance on this very issue:
“Yes, I do have an absolute right to pardon myself, but I’ll never have to do it because I didn’t do anything wrong and everybody knows it,”
So it seems like anything goes, there is no limit.
I think it’s definitely true that “change the laws so you can do something really bad that’s currently against the law” is going to win this, because it encompasses every possible bad thing.
So it might be more useful to consider the law as it is right now.
I’d say: there are a number of ways to kill someone legally. Lots of those are good candidates for being the worst thing you can do.
Arguably, bringing your children up to fear eternal punishment in hell.
I’ll take that and raise it to teaching entire communities to bring their children up to fear eternal punishment in hell.
However bad of a thing you can legally do to one person, there’s probably a way to ‘mass produce’ your wickedness by encouraging others to follow in your footsteps. for example it’s not legal to commit murder, but it is legal to create and promote stuff like inceldom, which has a completely unsurprising tendency to spawn murderers. It’s legal to become a major politician and announce that second amendment solutions would be really neat.
I suspect that for whichever specific act we decide is the winner here, the worst person will be the one who can get hordes of others to carry the act out at his behest.
First, it’s not something that I would do but what if they love each other & get married. In 15 years, she’s early 30’s & he’s late 60s. While not common that’s not unheard of. What was the age difference between Hef & his girlfriends? I think it was even bigger than that.
There’s a helluva lot of money & influence buying in politics. Of course the politicians write the laws so that a lot of it is legal.
While I was in high school, I was on the mailing list of Cecil Todd, founder of Revival Fires Ministry. He once sent out a flyer to his teenaged minions, informing us that the worst sin was sex outside of marriage.
My faith was already getting a little shaky, and that helped finish it off.
A few years later, I was told that Revival Fires had left Joplin, with Cecil abandoning his wife for his secretary, and that they took quite a bit of Revival Fires money with them.
Revival Fires is an ongoing money raiser today, with Cecil’s son Tim at the helm.
According to my minister father, the unforgiveable sin is hardening your heart against the Lord. But it’s legal.
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I’m still kind of freaked by that usage of the verb “trespass”. I suppose we’ve covered that here (we cover everything else! ;)) but I don’t know the Board’s general opinion.
I looked it up on about six dictionaries and didn’t find that definition. I do understand that general usage, no matter how ridiculous it may seem, becomes the definition (and I will literally die if anyone disputes this. 
) but I can’t escape feeling a bit icky when I read it.
try here, under Verb, #6.
But she isn’t in her 30s, she is 16. Legally a 45 year old police officer can sleep with his 16 year old step daughter in many places. But it’s still pretty bad. Maybe not downright evil, but pretty immoral.
Did you ever read Steinbeck’s The Winter of Our Discontent? I knew an actual human being who tried to replicate one of Ethan Hawley’s machinations. Unlike Hawley, this person was not driven to attempt suicide, nor did he show a glimmer of redemption when it was all over.
You win.
I wouldn’t put them in the number one slot, but people refusing to vaccinate their children for any reason other than a valid medical condition belongs somewhere on the list.
Declare war?
Yeah, maybe not the worst in all circumstances, but…
I think some kind of economic shenanigans should be the winner. Killing someone is bad but destroying the livelihood of thousands or millions is much worse. If you were in a position to redo 2008 you could cause thousands of deaths and cause psychological damage to a generation. Enron is certainly in that class and much more doable by a single person then a 2008 redo would be. Even if you only destroyed a town that would be terrible.
Look it up in a legal dictionary.
Actually, I’m not sure what the issue is. I just pulled up it’s entry in dictionary . com and it’s right there. Part 1b states that it’s to wrongfully enter someone else’s land. Very similar to the Cornell law definition that defines it as “knowingly entering another person’s property without permission”.
Yes, when it comes to dealing with the police ‘to trespass someone’ generally means you’re revoking their permission to be on your property. I don’t know if there’s an actual definition that makes that syntax correct or if it’s just cop speak that’s become common.
Actually, I see now that someone posted a wiki link that supports phrasing it like that.