What is the worst wrongdoing, is it deception, infidelity, disloyalty, treason? What is the most repulsive thing someone could do to offend or hurt you?
2006-11-13 08:57:35 · 23 answers · asked by style assimilator 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Let's think about what the greatest possible betrayal must entail...
First, you need something TO betray. The ultimate betrayal requires the ultimate confidence. To have given someone trust, loyalty, honesty, and sacrifice and only be repaid with deceit and lies. And obviously the most people who have sacrificed on the betrayer's behalf and the more trust and honor that was heaped upon him, the greater the betrayal becomes.
To some people, this necessitates not only betraying as much of mankind as possible, but also betraying the Divine - the ultimate source of all good.
There is also the manner in which the betrayal is conducted. Many of us have given white lies to our best friends, and some perhaps have been temporarily overtaken by a moment of hunger or weakness. But greater still, I think, is a betrayal which occurs with intent and planning - a cognizant destruction of that which has been allocated to you by others in order to recieve some sort of personal gain. By my accounting of evil, someone who intends to betray beats out someone who is just weak any day.
And to go further, someone who betrays not once, but many times is far more odious than someone who just does it once. Who could be more despised than someone who sees the horrid effects of one betrayal and then sets out to cause another and another and another?
Worst of all would be not only to commit all the above acts, and not only to get away scot free, but also to betray the public yet again by appearing as a hero and a saviour while in the act of destroying them, and to frame those who are truly good and have THEM destroyed as traitors when they are in fact just martyrs.
Put that all together and you get the ultimate traitor: someone who seeks out trust and honor to destroy for the sheer pleasure of it, is honored instead of opposed, and who turns that honor into ever greater chances for his wicked schemes. This is a person who we will never know because we all think him to be great. This is the ultimate betrayer.
2006-11-13 09:23:54 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Infidelity and disloyalty are bits of the same thing - dishonesty (deception). It doesn't matter how trivial, a lie hurts more than the truth. You can't have a good relationship with anyone unless you're honest with yourself and with them.
2006-11-13 08:59:54 · answer #2 · answered by cdvpruthe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ultimate betrayal, to me, is to be taken for granted. There is no worse feeling to me. The biggest mistake a person could make is to assume kindness is weakness.
2006-11-13 09:07:49 · answer #3 · answered by R.E.D.D. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pedophylia.
To harm a helpless child, who trusts you completely. That is the lowest form of cowardice and the ultimate betrayal.
2006-11-13 09:48:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deception.
Its a betrayal plus an insult.
2006-11-13 11:00:00 · answer #5 · answered by Saffren 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-22 00:55:00 · answer #6 · answered by hosford 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not just having sex with another man (or woman) in your bed, but gauging it so you do get caught by them and they can see the whole works.
Then, a very sang froid attitude about the whole thing.
That is cruel and vicious betrayal
2006-11-13 08:59:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are, of course, many painful forms of betrayal but the ultimate betrayal is being untrue to yourself.
2006-11-13 10:19:41 · answer #8 · answered by Temple 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's 2 of the 4 you named....forget which two. And it's real and it happened to me and I will never forget it. I'm just barely forgiving of it but have because I know she is mentally ill and alcoholic, so that's a good reason, besides which I was already hurting so bad from another issue, death of my spouse....She's no longer my "friend" though. I have to admit that I despise her......
2006-11-13 09:11:25 · answer #9 · answered by silhouette 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of them are very bad, and they all break your heart, but treason is even worse. It's betrayal of your country.
2006-11-13 09:06:06 · answer #10 · answered by Shotsie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋