which is worse thinking about doing unspeakable act like rape or killing, or etc, or actualy doing them.
2007-12-23 15:38:46 · 34 answers · asked by jdeathtime 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
doing them.
2007-12-23 15:40:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Performing heinous acts is illegal mostly; if we were to punish people for thinking about things, we would have enabled thought crime and would encourage beyond puritanical revocation of human liberty. Thinking is also worlds different from obsessing, which sometimes approaches the unspeakable nature of actually acting upon them.
2007-12-23 15:44:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you harbor those thoughts and do not act on them or devulge them you are no differnet than the person standing next to you in McDonalds.
If you act on those feelings then you have crossed a troublesome line. By crossing that line you have entered into the dark part of humanity, a place from whjich there is usually no return.
2007-12-23 15:46:35 · answer #3 · answered by DonPedro 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thought are only thoughts. They aren't good or bad, they just are.
On the other hand, (choosing to act on) the kind of thoughts you describe clearly leads to inflicting psychological and physical damage on another human being and that is pretty much, across the board, considered to be a bad thing.
2007-12-23 16:40:28 · answer #4 · answered by Jess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually doing them would be worse... plus the consequence.
Thinking them isn't really all that strange, unless someone is seriously thinking about doing something like that-- they may make it into a fantasy and follow through.
2007-12-23 15:45:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on your question.
If you're asking which is worse morally, actually doing them takes the cake.
If you're asking like, psychologically, I'd say thinking, because it gets out of hand and you can think about it over and over, whereas you can only do it so many times and then it's over.
2007-12-23 15:42:46 · answer #6 · answered by Eshla 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually doing them of course.... why would you want to know what was worse?? Common sense will tell you that actually doing them are a lot worse!
2007-12-23 15:42:15 · answer #7 · answered by Gina 7 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on how long you think about it. Obviously DOING it is worse, but if you obsses by thinking about it all the time, it's not a sign of a healthy person.
Why do you ask?
2007-12-23 16:14:52 · answer #8 · answered by cscrapbook 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
doing it,
thinking about doing something bad is a sin (in the catholic church) and it only affects yourself
if you rape or kill somebody you are commiting a sin while still affecting the person you raped/killed's family and friends,
it is not fair to the victim or their peeps to do something like that
2007-12-23 15:45:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thinking about performing these kinds of acts is horrible all in-itself but it takes more malevolence to physically carry these out.
2007-12-23 15:45:33 · answer #10 · answered by NewSlang 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doing them is alot worse than thinking them.
2007-12-23 15:41:25 · answer #11 · answered by jcase61 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋