What's the most MORALLY QUESTIONABLE thing you've ever done?

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

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0:00.0	What's the most morally questionable thing you've ever done?
0:04.0	When I was in college, a few friends and I had noticed that on football game days,
0:08.0	alumni would pay ten bucks to park in the driveways and yards of houses next to the football stadium.
0:13.0	We found a house that nobody was at and started waving cars onto the lawn.
0:17.0	We charged folks, and nobody thought to ask us if we actually lived there or had permission to do this. Once we filled the lawn, we took our money and just ran out of the lawn. We charged folks and nobody thought to ask us if we actually lived there or had
0:21.4	permission to do this. Once we filled the lawn, we took our money and just ran off. We spent
0:26.1	the ill-gotten gains on underage drinking. Reminds me of the story of the guy who just showed up
0:30.8	at the parking lot and started charging people for parking. Did it for like 20 years and then just
0:34.9	stopped showing up one day and everyone wondered where he went.
0:37.9	He never actually worked for the building or anything. He just took people's money every day.
0:42.2	That guy is my hero. I stole my friend's Lego Shark submarine set in the third grade.
0:48.6	He had brought it to show and tell and left it there all week to be admired. I told my parents I
0:53.3	won it in a competition. The class
0:55.0	searched high and low to no avail, but everyone was non the wiser. After a few days, I started to feel
1:00.7	pretty guilty. After a few more, I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't even enjoy the coolest
1:05.5	Lego set of all time. I took it to school the next day, took it out of my bag when no one was
1:09.9	looking, and pretended to find it in a corner.
1:12.6	My teacher was definitely on to me. God, I was a little jerk.
1:16.3	Jerk or not, you did do the right thing. Your teacher didn't rat you out because she knew all the guilt was killing you.
1:22.4	Not only that, but punishing someone for doing the right thing is the best way to discourage children from ever doing the right thing.
1:29.3	Not as questionable as the others on here, but whatever.
1:32.3	When I was in third grade, I was in Catholic school, and my parents and I went to Berrien's bookstore, which is a Christian store.
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