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How to recognize a bad person? No, not a caricatured villain from comics, but simply a person who at first glance looks completely harmless, but if you look closely, various aspects begin to appear, thickening the shadows on a previously light and, perhaps, shining image.

In fact, the ability to recognize not-that-nice people is very useful in life for almost any of us, so this selection of 'red flags', carefully compiled and based on a recent poll in the AskReddit community, might be really wholesome. At least, if you don't see yourself in all these various clues...

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online People who treat servers, Uber drivers, convenience store clerks ect disrespectfully.

Character is how you treat the people that you’ll never see again.

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Alexia
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11 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This should be higher. I ended friendships because my then-friends were rude to waiters and receptionists. Why would you do that?

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Making your children upset in order to record it and post it for internet points.

ManMan1101 , Oleksandr Pidvalnyi Report

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Joshua David
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think there needs to be a punishment where people who do things like this get like a house arrest anklet. Instead of geo tracking should have something that scramble and disallows the internet around the person.

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MaximumKarmaSaint
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a feeling that if that happened they'd blame it on and punish the kid....

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Panda Kicki
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or just taking advantage of them being upaet anyway and posting their meltdowns. How would you feel if someone took your worst moments and posted them for the world to see. BP has had some disgusting post on that theme as well.

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Marleina Hershberg
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same goes for doing things to get your pets' upset reactions, NOT FUNNY!!!!!

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EJGeewhiz
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or "pranking" your kid. It's tough enough being a kid without having to worry when Mom or Dad is going to "get you" again.

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BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they)
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

if it's just a harmless prank (like no hurt feelings, me and my mom actually want to put googly eyes on everything to prank my dad when he gets home) I think it's okay. If you post it online, I'm not really okay with that. If you make the kid cry, that's not a harmless prank anymore

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meow point1
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Amen! I once saw a video where the uploader was asking the viewers whether she should spank her little daughter who looked about four! SMH

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Jared Robinson
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

thank god I am too old to have suffered this kind of abuse. I just got the old "break me off a switch to beat you with" much less traumatic.

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Ur Cupid Grookey
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My stepmom did that to me :l (Never posted it online but she showed the video to everyone in the family, my real mom was NOT happy with her)

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Tee Rat
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mom and dad always remember who's going to be choosing your elderly nursing care.

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Bethany Martin
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or sitting on Santa/Easter Bunny/Any ones lap while screaming!. It's. Not. Funny.

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11 months ago

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In fact, of course, the negative traits listed in this selection can be found in almost any of us. After all, there are no perfectly good and sinless people and we have all done some bad deeds at some point. And here, probably, the main difference between a really bad person and a good one comes into play.

A good person, having done something icky, realizes it, gets upset - and tries to learn a life lesson from this experience, not to do it again. The bad one probably won't refrain from repeating it - even if it obviously hurts and troubles others.

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Being a habitual litterer.

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online In my opinion cheating on your significant other its one of the highest levels of betrayal a person can do to another.

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Ross “Sarcastic Dad”
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And there are no excuses that are acceptable. Don't care if you were drunk, on a business trip, it was one time, you regret it, they came on to you, blah, blah.

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Believing mental disorders don't exist.

FlahtheWhip , Pixabay Report

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, minimizing the effects of mental illness. ("You should smile more, it releases dopamine!")

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By the way, the ideas expressed in this selection also clearly show the evolution of the image of a villain in popular culture - the most dangerous are not loud-voiced scoundrels and poseurs like Thanos or Lord Voldemort, but, on the contrary, sometimes charming and quite charismatic personalities, inside which, however, pitch darkness reigns. Think, for example, Hannibal Lecter, Kaiser Soze or Nurse Ratched. The latter generally inspires more horror just because she's absolutely sure that she is right, and even revels in her own power within certain limits. And that makes her even more dangerous and disgusting.

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Not having empathy, common courtesy, or respect for people in worse situations than yourself. For example treating homeless people poorly and “lesser” than you, or treating people in low paying service jobs poorly because you feel that they’re beneath you somehow.

EasyMode556 , fabio.tsu Report

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11 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hotelier, here. Our resort has garden (golf course) rooms starting at $1200/night w/resort fees, taxes, etc. Our ocean views start at $1700 and oceanfront at $2300. Those are rackrate, off-season. You can guess which guests have issues with everything from their room to facilities to staff to the food to activities. They often treat staff as “less than” It’s not the wealthy folks peering out at the sun setting over the sea. It’s the mildly successful, upper middle class who think they’re better than others and have snobby attitudes and outrageous demands.

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Minimizing other peoples experiences or pain because it doesn't match with your experiences

Shepard_of_fire_124 , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This behaviour is a good warning sign though. It shows that you’re dealing with someone who’s whole self-worth is determined by how they match against other people. Run away!

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Not cleaning up your dog's s**t from the street

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"Unfortunately, most [toxic people] don't come with warning labels the way toxic chemicals do. Many of them seem very likable at first. After all, most toxic people are good manipulators, so getting you to like them is part of their toolkit", Minda Zetlin, a contributor for Inc, writes in her column. "While there's no foolproof method to tell right away if a new friend or colleague will be a drag on your energy, mood, or productivity, there are some early warning signs many toxic people display." So most importantly - always take information critically because what you can perceive as a red flag can always turn out to be an instant clouding of a true good person. Just give people a chance...

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Parking in the handicapped spot and not being handicapped or have a sticker/placard. Or parking in a spot crooked where the next car can’t park.

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Refusing to wear headphones

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It really makes me want to unplug my headphones and let my metal fuse with the monotone, mumble rap that the offenders are usually playing just to show them how terribly annoying it is.

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Treating people who are just doing their jobs as automatically inferior.

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Jessica SpeLangm
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If they don't do their job, you can't do yours. I'm talking to you, mom, about janitors.

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Be that as it may, the list that is presented here looks quite complete, and is able to cure almost any person from excessive naivety. So now please feel free to scroll it to the very end, and if you have your own marker for identifying terrible persons, then write it down in the comments section. Perhaps your experience will also be wholesome to someone. After all, helping others is just the hallmark of good people, isn't it?

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Stealing money meant for charities.

MaddenRob , Liza Summer Report

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Don’t take good care of their children

Quiet-Rip-6063 , Tatiana Syrikova Report

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never interact with their kids or provide them something to do while out and about. Kids get bored quickly. Bring a book to read or activity/coloring book. Don't just give them a phone or iPad.

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online People who cut you off after 2 - 5 seconds every time you try to say something!

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online if you're a boss, and you know for certain your place is about to close up, and you don't tell your crew so they can start looking for a new paycheck? absolute f*****g scum.

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People who enjoy other people hurting.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This seems to have been accelerated by social media. Like there were always Carnts beforehand but nowhere, anywhere in the numbers like today.

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Not accepting mistakes as mistakes. Just say I f****d up.

TimeToCash , Alex Green Report

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online When someone complains about everyone else behind their backs

Lavadragon10 , Alex Green Report

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You should get this person together with the one who is "just being honest".

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online When someone literally tells you they are a good person, run for the hill.

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Ross “Sarcastic Dad”
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I try to lower the bar and tell everyone how awful I am. Then they're pleasantly surprised with my mediocrity.

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online "Don't hate the player, hate the game."

Yeah, I hate both.

Clever_Mercury , Sebastian Arie Voortman Report

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Someone who has spent thousands of dollars on tattoos while their children are dressed in clothes that are falling apart or who look exhausted and hungry.

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11 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those same people begging outside the shops for f*g money. Edit for the BP censors: f.a.g is a colloquialism for cigarette in English English

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online They don’t put the goddamn cart back at the grocery store

omg_88 , Mizzu Cho Report

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Ross “Sarcastic Dad”
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I will take abandoned carts and put them away in addition to mine. It's because I'm a really good person. And I'm honest.

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Making a huge screaming scene in a restaurant .

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or anywhere in public. Unless, you know, it's to do with a medical emergency and there is reason.

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Not saying it's awesome when a kid shows you a drawing they made

ipakookapi , cottonbro studio Report

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online People that care more about being right than anything else. People that lie to seem better than other people.

InfinityES , Vera Arsic Report

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bullying others. whether you see it as a joke or not, you’re still annoying someone else and thats wrong so get the f**k away from my table and stay atleast 6 ft away from me, simon.

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Alphabroism- just made that up but You know it when you see it

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Taking advantage of others or mistreating others when they can get away with it.

Things like letting their roommates do all their dishes and pay all the bills. Getting their partner to do the majority of housework and slinking out of helping. Acting like they care about something only when someone is witnessing them. Being kind only when others are watching. Being cruel when others are not watching. "Forgetting" things that don't fit their narrative about who they are.

It is so manipulative to cultivate a persona that is totally false and to act the opposite when it is advantageous. So many people use this strategy to get away with terrible behaviour and once you see their true colours it immediately screams they are terrible at their core.

omnombooks , cottonbro studio Report

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.” ― Abigail Van Buren

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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online "I'm just really honest"

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