What would you do?

[cyrano]

IFIAYAQD!
Most denominations of the Christian faith consider the worst sin to be a denial of the Lord God after receiving sure knowledge of His existence.
The State considers treason and the offering of comfort to its enemies to be the worst sin.
My mom considers chewing ice with your mouth open to be the worst sin.

What about you?

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[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Willful harm to a trusting innocent.

I know that's highly up for interpretation, but that's what gets my guts more than anything else. Abuse your kid? Beat your spouse? Torture a domestic animal? All fall under that category and are as close to 'evil' as my moral compass allows.

I guess it's the breach of implicit trust that bothers me the most, and that (for the child and the domestic animal) there's no capacity to understand why it's happening or that it is a crime, or to fight back. Learned helplessness in the case of spousal abuse brings about a lot of the same factors, and so do societal pressures (on women, for instance, who in most cultures can't fight back if their husband abuses them).

The most horrifying thing I've heard of in recent times was a recent bombing in Iraq. I'm not sure if later developments changed this, but at the original reporting it looked like a mentally handicapped woman had been used to carry the bombs into a songbird marketplace full of people (including schoolchildren on holliday). The bomb was detonated by remote. Just thinking about the cowardice and misuse of trust that went into that drives me absolutely sick with fury.