Determining whether or not someone is a lousy person isn't easy. Most people have the capacity for good and bad behavior.
When we're judging others, Dr. Maury Joseph, a psychologist in Washington, D.C., says we must consider the context of their actions.
"If a person makes the only choice available to them, based on their developmental history, the prejudices of the country in which they were born, and their current environment, does that make them bad?" Joseph asks.
Everyone has a backstory that explains why they act a certain way. Can we convict them without it? Let's do a test.
Here's a list of situations in which the internet (most notably, this subreddit) thought individuals proved themselves to be rotten from the inside. Upvote the ones you agree with and let's see if there are deeds that don't need the context Maury Joseph was talking about to earn you some pretty nasty labels.
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Karma Is A B*tch
Very nice! :D So that's what assholes look like, who never learned a decent job and need to blackmail people to make a living.
He Spent 20 Years Breeding A Super-Bee That Could Survive Attacks From Mites That Kill Millions Of Bees Worldwide
In a 2018 research paper, psychologists M. Moshagen, B. E. Hilbig, and I. Zettler suggest that what they call "D," or the dark factor of personality, lies at the root of unethical or cruel behavior.
D-factor traits include narcissism and psychopathy, along with:
- sadism
- spitefulness
- self-interest
- entitlement
- moral disengagement
- egoism
All of these traits imply that someone will pursue their own interests at the expense of others.
Stealing From A Disabled Man
That is absolutely horrible. Im so sorry you had to experience such assholeness
How Terrible Of A Person Do You Have To Be To Do This
Falsifying Results To Save Money - Impacting How Many Families?!
Maybe you’ve noticed some D-factor traits not only in these pictures but in your behavior as well. However, that does not automatically make you a bad person.
Many of the choices you make affect people besides yourself, so before you do something (especially if you have doubts about whether it’s the right thing to do), it's wise to stop and consider whether your action might hurt someone else.
Passing on a workplace rumor to your boss, for example, could make you look good, but it certainly won’t help your coworker — especially if the rumor turns out to be a lie.
But if you don't care about the potential impact as long as you benefit, or you have a hard time considering consequences for others, you might want to explore your personality a bit deeper.
This Is Exactly Why I Hate Seaworld
When Not Even Your Own Spouse Dying From Covid Will Convince To Change Your Habits And Keep Safe...
There are people who really, truly don't get it. My dad is a hospital chaplain. He's had patients with COVID who don't believe they have COVID. He's had other patients die of COVID and furious family members unwilling to accept that COVID killed their family member. It's ridiculous and sad. Get vaccinated. Social distance. Wear your mask. This s**t is real. Protect yourself and those you care about.
If You’re A Parent And Let Your Kids Make A Mess Like This Then You’re A Piece Of Sh**
I'm sorry to the staff that have to clean this up. I mean, the parents could leave a reasonable tip to try and make your night/day better whilst cleaning this up..
A good follow-up question to ask yourself would be "do you take time to consider the emotions of people around you in everyday life?"
Showing interest in the well-being of others is vital to maintaining interpersonal relationships. And it usually doesn’t take much to demonstrate that you care. It's often enough just to offer emotional support or a listening ear.
But if you feel indifferent, or if you believe others deserve the distress they experience, you might benefit from talking to a therapist.
This Kid Will Never Live This Photo Down
This is how children react when they're caught with their hand in the cookie jar
Absolute Human Waste
Still Hasn't Been Turned In
Or just sue the delivery company for leaving your medicines unattended at your door. In the Netherlands it's quite common for delivery people to ask neighbors if they can leave packages for other people. Why wouldn't you do that for your neighbors?
This Is Beyond Stupid
The Person Who Did This
How Dare My Dying Father Live Out The Rest Of His Life!??!?!
This Chinese Policeman Arresting A Medic Helping Wounded Protesters In Hong Kong
Ashton Kutcher Took A Photo Of A Paparazzo Camping Outside His 2 Year Old’s Daycare Trying To Get Photos Of The Toddler
Just Discrediting Someone's Death Because Of The Brain Dead Narrative You Believe
Some A-Hole Abandoned This Poor Tiny Baby In Our Stuffed Animal Bin At My Workplace Last Night
that poor kitten - how awful do you have to be to do something like that.
We used to have a kitten that we found by the side of the river. We guess that the rest of his litter was thrown in. He was a sweet kitty, we named him Oscar.
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A bunch of kittens were abandoned near the university I work in recently. They currently live under a very short tree with a thick canopy (they can hide under it)... but the leaves will fall sooner or later and they won't have shelter.
HOW DO YOU HAVE THE HEART TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO THAT POOR, PRECIOUS LITTLE KITTY!!!
I would hunt the person down and do this worst thing allowed by the law to them
Tell me where they live- I'ma go full Rapunzel from Tangled on this guy with my heaviest pan.
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…at least they put it in there to make sure its being taken care of…?
atleast they gave the little guy a bed,unless thats the guys that found him
Someone left a kitten at a gas station in a box, on a very cold night. My daughter found him and brought him to us. He has been with us for 10 years now.
oh my god the poor baby. If you don't want the cat, give them to a shelter for future adoption
My Son Is Asthmatic And Is Very Unwell Currently. We Pay To Get Milk/Eggs/Bread Delivered 3 Times A Week And Everyday This Week Someone Has Stolen This Before 7am
Goldman Sachs Asking The Real Questions
MacBook Jerk
People Queuing For Up To 6 Hours To Get A Covid Test And Police Think It’s Acceptable Behaviour To Fine Them 100s Of Dollars For Looking At Their Phones
Really doubt if the fines will stand up in court. You're not allowed to hold a mobile device when you're driving, but in most countries it's perfectly legal to use it when you're stationary. Like when you're waiting for a traffic light or when you're trapped in a congestion.
This Must Be So Emotionally Hard To Go Through
"She's Around 11 And Im Just Tired Of Her To Be Honest"
Bumblebee Didn’t Want To Be In Their Possession
I Wish There Were Stronger Drunk Driving Laws
Wrong Car
Graffiti "Artist" Trashes The Work Of A Well Known Cartoonist Who Was Recently Invited To Paint A Mural In Mexico
Poor Sarah, her work is millions of miles better than that rubbish on top of it
This Person Who Refuses To Return My Friend's Dog
This person who stole the dog can rot in hell. The dog is obviously depressed, I feel so bad for the the person who it got stolen from 😭😭😭
Hospital Worker Uses Dead Patients Bank Card To Buy Snacks
Pastor Who Begged His Followers To Send Him Their Stimulus Checks And Almost Backed Over A Protester Is Bailed Out By His Wife
Putting Gum In The Charging Slots On Public Transport...
The "Beautiful" Town Of Harrison In Arkansas
During An Active Shooting
A Former Teacher Of Mine Publicly Ridiculing And Passing Judgement On Someone For Being Proud Of Their Sobriety
What?
Mr F Thinks It's Unfair That His Wife Doesn't Want To Get Tortured For His Pleasure
Serial Killer In The Making
If people would put their ingenuity toward something positive imagine how great the world would be.
"My Son Must Have A £25k Car As A Present, It's An Emergency"
So Many Wrong Cars In This List
I Guess I’ll Eat Somewhere Else?
During a flood, a jeep drove by to rescue people and stopped to pick up a man. The jeep offered to help him evacuate, but the man said, "No thanks, God will help me, I have faith." As the flood worsened, a boat came along and made the same offer, but this time also, the man refused. "God will take care of me." The flood worsened even more, and the man had to climb up to the roof of a building. A helicopter came by, and its pilots tried to convince the man to grab onto the rope ladder. The man went, "Yes, the flood is higher, but I know God will save me." In a shocking turn of events, the man drowned to death, and ended up at the gates of heaven. "You betrayed me, God. I had faith in You yet I died." God replied, "I sent you a jeep, a boat, and a helicopter. What else could I have done for you?"
Woman Leaves Out Poison For Animals That Are “Trespassing”
Imagine Being This Spoilt, Sometime Didn't Get You Anything On Christmas So You Spend A S**t Ton Of Their Money, I Hope The Dude Wasn't Broke
Umm, someone tell this genius she bought the wrong case for that iPhone and also what in the name of f**k is SKOOL LUV AFFAIR?! lmao
Regardless Of How You Feel Politically, Actions Like These Show How Little Some People Give A S**t About Others
People Want Things To Get Back To Normal Hey, Screw Em'
What An Ask
Entitled Kid Thinks Being Pregnant Isn't An Excuse For Him To Move
Entitled Rich Kid Asks For Birthday Money
Charging 6x The Price For Hoarded Gas
My Friend Asks Us To Donate Money Towards Her Temporary Car She’ll Use For Year Until Her Dad Buys Her A Cadillac. She Doesn’t Even Have A Permit. Shortly After This She Left Our Group Chat And Made A Post On How Annoying People Are. Blue Is Her And Green Is The Other Person In Our Group Chat
Lazy as hell. AND what is with the bad English? I swear the language is getting harder to understand in some parts of my city. No clue what they ae saying and now they want daddy to buy them a new Caddy? WTF.
Reading through this was a mistake. It made me so angry >:[ People can be so trashy..
You and me both! We don’t need this crap right now.
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I gave up at number 8, just made me angry. The behaviour is absolutely disgusting, these people should be ashamed of themselves. Unlikely that they are though.
Usually people who do stuff like can barely be considered human.
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Those are bad, but today I read about 3 boys that pushed a man in front of a tram in Den Haag yestetday. The man died. I don't know if there was an argument or something but wtf... why...
And it's getting worse. Their self-worth-overestimation is showing and it's killing people.
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How about the train full of assholes who took pictures while a woman was actively being raped in front of them on the train yesterday? https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/18/us/philadelphia-train-rape/index.html
I saw a headline about that & couldn't read it, I get too enraged. I did see that the police are looking for the witnesses who did nothing to help & the witness could be charged with aiding & abetting. I sure hope so.
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And now I'm wondering (afger reading the first three) why exactly I want to save human lives... Should've been a veterinarian.
Please stay in there, Leo - there are a lot more of us good people out here with common sense, dignity, and empathy who need people like you than there are a**holes - the problem is the a**holes get clicks & are more visible.
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It's amazing how people can harness all this energy for evil, but can't redirect it for the good of humanity. We could be such a better world. 😢
This made me sad and angry at the same time. Some people suck beyond measure
All these people need to eat a rat poison sandwich and down it all with liquid nitrogen
Dear Bored Panda, avoid this type of posts, as a person who struggles with sadness and depression, I come to this space to enjoy, laugh a little and forget about how ugly the world and people really are. Thank you 🐼😽💋
The title makes it pretty clear what the article's about. I know it can be hard not to click, especially when you're wallowing, but it's probably worth it.
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I have suddenly discovered a great use for Australia's gympie tree. Need to plant me a valley of those and push some people in there.
This whole f*****g thread is just the worst. Not being able to do s**t about any of it sucks. Where the f**k is Batman???
Fuming!!! What is wrong with people? I have never gotten so angry at a feed before.
I just want to punch all these people right now in the pictures. Theya are just so horrible 😫
It's times like these I get the feeling the world will burn and am actually glad I am not immortal.
After reading these, I want to install a 3-meter-tall fence around my entire property and never leave again.
I cried for the victims of these horrible acts and for the people that committed them who must lead miserable lives. I'm not perfect, and I feel contrition for my mistakes. I hope my actions never end up on a list like this. I prayed the Divine Mercy chaplet after I read this: "For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world."
Sorry boredpanda collected these abominations... what had been a lovely, up light experience- as boredpanda had until now only showing uplifting stuff, this post crashed all! Why? Is not there enough horrors in our world already? If we want to see stuff like this, there are millions of sites to go! Very sad boredpanda... very sad you turned into one.
I stopped reading at the 4th post. I'm already disappointed in society in a broad scope and this wasn't helping.
well....i am going to go read www.goodnewsnetwork.org and www.happyeconews.com to recover.
Couldn't read past the 4th post, some people deserve the worst life possible.
Just saying... I agree with all of Eva the Egg's comments :D perfectly said. Rot in hell motherf&#*s
I've told this story before but this collection of the worst of humanity brought it to mind again. About 10 years ago, I was homeless and sleeping in a tent. I would hide it by a wooded area on some parkland and return when night fell to set it up. One night I arrived, found my tent at the same spot I had left it and started to put it up. That's when it became clear that someone had carefully slit long holes all along it, rendering it useless. Some people had obviously seen me take the tent down and stash it, and they thought it would be hilarious not only to destroy my home, but to be sly and wreck it unobtrusively and put it back, just to further mess with me. Not ashamed to say I cried like a baby that night lol. All faith in humanity was destroyed. For a long time
Reading through this was a mistake. It made me so angry >:[ People can be so trashy..
You and me both! We don’t need this crap right now.
Load More Replies... I gave up at number 8, just made me angry. The behaviour is absolutely disgusting, these people should be ashamed of themselves. Unlikely that they are though.
Usually people who do stuff like can barely be considered human.
Load More Replies... Those are bad, but today I read about 3 boys that pushed a man in front of a tram in Den Haag yestetday. The man died. I don't know if there was an argument or something but wtf... why...
And it's getting worse. Their self-worth-overestimation is showing and it's killing people.
Load More Replies... How about the train full of assholes who took pictures while a woman was actively being raped in front of them on the train yesterday? https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/18/us/philadelphia-train-rape/index.html
I saw a headline about that & couldn't read it, I get too enraged. I did see that the police are looking for the witnesses who did nothing to help & the witness could be charged with aiding & abetting. I sure hope so.
Load More Replies... And now I'm wondering (afger reading the first three) why exactly I want to save human lives... Should've been a veterinarian.
Please stay in there, Leo - there are a lot more of us good people out here with common sense, dignity, and empathy who need people like you than there are a**holes - the problem is the a**holes get clicks & are more visible.
Load More Replies... It's amazing how people can harness all this energy for evil, but can't redirect it for the good of humanity. We could be such a better world. 😢
This made me sad and angry at the same time. Some people suck beyond measure
All these people need to eat a rat poison sandwich and down it all with liquid nitrogen
Dear Bored Panda, avoid this type of posts, as a person who struggles with sadness and depression, I come to this space to enjoy, laugh a little and forget about how ugly the world and people really are. Thank you 🐼😽💋
The title makes it pretty clear what the article's about. I know it can be hard not to click, especially when you're wallowing, but it's probably worth it.
Load More Replies... I have suddenly discovered a great use for Australia's gympie tree. Need to plant me a valley of those and push some people in there.
This whole f*****g thread is just the worst. Not being able to do s**t about any of it sucks. Where the f**k is Batman???
Fuming!!! What is wrong with people? I have never gotten so angry at a feed before.
I just want to punch all these people right now in the pictures. Theya are just so horrible 😫
It's times like these I get the feeling the world will burn and am actually glad I am not immortal.
After reading these, I want to install a 3-meter-tall fence around my entire property and never leave again.
I cried for the victims of these horrible acts and for the people that committed them who must lead miserable lives. I'm not perfect, and I feel contrition for my mistakes. I hope my actions never end up on a list like this. I prayed the Divine Mercy chaplet after I read this: "For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world."
Sorry boredpanda collected these abominations... what had been a lovely, up light experience- as boredpanda had until now only showing uplifting stuff, this post crashed all! Why? Is not there enough horrors in our world already? If we want to see stuff like this, there are millions of sites to go! Very sad boredpanda... very sad you turned into one.
I stopped reading at the 4th post. I'm already disappointed in society in a broad scope and this wasn't helping.
well....i am going to go read www.goodnewsnetwork.org and www.happyeconews.com to recover.
Couldn't read past the 4th post, some people deserve the worst life possible.
Just saying... I agree with all of Eva the Egg's comments :D perfectly said. Rot in hell motherf&#*s
I've told this story before but this collection of the worst of humanity brought it to mind again. About 10 years ago, I was homeless and sleeping in a tent. I would hide it by a wooded area on some parkland and return when night fell to set it up. One night I arrived, found my tent at the same spot I had left it and started to put it up. That's when it became clear that someone had carefully slit long holes all along it, rendering it useless. Some people had obviously seen me take the tent down and stash it, and they thought it would be hilarious not only to destroy my home, but to be sly and wreck it unobtrusively and put it back, just to further mess with me. Not ashamed to say I cried like a baby that night lol. All faith in humanity was destroyed. For a long time
