What is the worst thing a person can do?

Question

Is it possible to do anything worse? Why or why not?

Answer 1

as in murder or what?

Answer 2

Hi,

Why is this seemingly simple question so difficult? Take any heinous act. Why is it heinous? Because the allowance wasn't santioned, but the same act could be sanctioned under different conditions.

For example, take our society's sanctioned murder-- capital punishment. A lethal injection of KCl is terrible way to die; however, he committed the heinous crime, he's gonna pay with controlled death.

Take another example, skinning a person to death. That is wicked amongst other "worst" things. However, if skinning a person to death was the only way to save thousands of children's lives because the skin of that person contained a special antibiotic (biotic antibiotic)--we can imagine all sorts of crazy ideas, but there is no way to say that even this idea could be wrote off as the "worst thing a person can do".


Thus, the logical basis of the impossibility of answering your question is this. One could imagine the worst atrocity a human can do, but there will always be worser atrocities by numbers and consequences. In other words, you can always have it beat by adding one more person killed, for example. If killing 10 million in the Nazi concentration camps was the worst, would having killed 10.2 million be worse? It's a rough count/statistics--does it pierce your heart any? And would the families of the victims of Ted Bundy agree? You see, what's close to heart as worst is what most people will respond. Then, sheer numbers may pale in comparison to the sheer reality.

If killing one person is bad, how about killing two, killing three, killing four..., killing 500? Killing 300000? Does killing more make it worse?
Well gosh darn it! You can look at this and say increased number is worse, or you could think, he killed one person, isn't that bad enough? When you get to huge numbers, it becomes a international legal matter and the one punishable is one on top who lifted no finger. He simply gave an order, or he failed to stop an incident of mad soldier rage.


Complexity is the hold-up in giving you a straight-forward reply. There isn't one. May I finally respond, "It depends!"? The centrality of your problem here doesn't seem to depend so much on the nature of the evil. If it is purely logical--to top the worst...? If there isn't a way to determine what is worst as the first premise, then it wouldn't be logically possible to have anything worse, meaning greater in magnitude or degree.

When you get down to particular examples, such as burns covering a body surface. A third degree burn is worse than a first degree burn because the damage to body layer layers is deeper and now require immense fluid resuscitation (and antibiotics) and the level of treatment is more acute. Even in this particular example, there is no "worse" to a third degree burn specifically. Is it death? Well, there are many complications to burns. You can only determine if there is a finite set of possiblities. What situation in this world is finite, given a condition?





Finally, to recap, you didn't give any criteria that limits or narrow downs the answers. It yields complexity and is logically impossible.

Answer 3

The worst thing a person can do is rape a woman or even worse rape children.
I am not a supporter of capital punishment but in this case anything goes.

Answer 4

This is only answerable determinant upon the given person and their moral code of ethics.

To some people this might be murder, to others that could never bring themselves to murder the worse act to commit might some form of sexual abuse, and yet to another it might be stealing.

Some people would never do anything that bad so like I said initially it would all depend on the person and their moral code of ethics.

Answer 5

Hmm, my original answer was it's impossible to name the superlative here, since there can always be something worse, but after more thought, I'm going to go with:

Destroy the universe and completely erase every other form of reality along with it.

Answer 6

The worst thing anyone can do is to take/destroy their own life. And to a lesser extent, not have offspring.

It goes against every purpose, of every living being on this planet.

Murder, sexual acts, selfishness .. these are all human/animal impulses in one way or another but to take your own life is to deny the existence of any further life you may create and destroying the gift of existence itself.

Answer 7

Rape a baby? I don't know, there are lots of horrible and sick things people can do. Depends on the individual as to what they consider the worse.

Answer 8

Christianity says that there are sins that are worse to commit than others. There are seven sins that it calls deadly:

Ranked in a growing order of severity the seven deadly sins are:

Lust (fornication) — Unlawful sexual desire, such as desiring sex with a person outside marriage.

Gluttony — Wasting of food, either through eating too much food, drink or drugs, misplaced desire for food for its taste, or not giving food to the needy

Greed (covetousness, avarice) — Greed is when somebody wants more things than the person needs or can use.

Sloth = Laziness; idleness and wastefulness of time that a person has. Laziness is hated because others have to work harder

Delaying what God wants a person to do or not doing it at all
It makes life harder for oneself, because useful work does not get done It, like gluttony, is a sin of waste, for it wastes time, maybe because of pride

Sloth is a state of equilibrium: one does not produce much, but one does not need much either being lazy, being scared, lack of imagination, complacency, and not doing what the person should do

Wrath (anger, hate) — Inappropriate feelings of hatred, revenge or even denial, as well as punitive desires outside of justice .

Envy (jealousy) — Hating other people for what they have.

Pride (vanity) — A desire to be important or attractive to others or excessive love of self Hatred and contempt for one's neighbor

Some of those sins are connected. People have tried to put an order to them. For example, pride (love of self out of proportion) is needed for gluttony (the over-consumption or waste of food), as well as sloth, envy, and most of the others. Each of those sins is a way to not loving god and to not loving the others as much as oneself. The Scholastic theologians developed schema of attribute and substance of will to explain these sins.

The opposite of these sins are the seven virtues (chastity, moderation, charity, zeal, meekness, generosity, and humility) in corresponding order to the above seven deadly sins.

Answer 9

I think Mother Theresa said that the most important gift we can give each other is respect. So.....I think the worst we can do is be disrespectful and make people feel unwanted, unloved, unimportant........... I find it VERY hard to be respectful to people who make me angry or uncomfortable. Mother Theresa said it was more important that she showed respect to the "untouchables" in India, than giving them food, housing or medicine.

Answer 10

Become a world leader and send your young people off to another country to fight an illegal war.

Answer 11

well as the world goes on something worse happens so what someone does someone else can do something which is even worse and it ll keep on going like that so im not really sure :/