So you say. I'm much more inclined to believe they believe they'll get away with it.
> Some people are bad and don't want to be and it is a struggle.
Sure, but that's almost exclusively due to mental illness, not "rationality".
> Some people just do what they need to to survive, for whatever survival means to them at any given time.
Survival is reinforcement.
> Some people test the limits of their, and societal, boundaries.
Mostly because closer to the limit means more reinforcement. Simple risk/reward.
I want to think that being good is non-religiously rewarded (ie. in this life), but I'm not entirely sure that's true. I think it takes effort not to take unethical shortcuts or make profitable but hurtful decisions.
> So you say. I'm much more inclined to believe they believe they'll get away with it.
Says Dylann Roof (convicted of mass shootings at a church in South Carolina), "I do not regret what I did. I am not sorry."
Some people are bad and don't want to be and it is a struggle.
Some people just do what they need to to survive, for whatever survival means to them at any given time.
Some people test the limits of their, and societal, boundaries.
This is too complex of a concept to limit it to two coinciding factors, IMO we are all all of these things in differing quantities.
Hopefully people learn that the consequences of bad actions are rarely beneficial long term and develop processes to mitigate.