As infractions go, letting a child eat a banana at the grocery store before you’ve paid for that probably wouldn’t make anyone’s list of what’s evil. But what do you think? Is it stealing? And at what price point does stealing become evil? In this edition of Doing What Works we linger on questions like that because we believe one task of life is to become better people as we age.

Here are your show notes…

Good is getting pleasure from helping others; evil is getting pleasure from hurting others. In general! That frame is from Dilbert creator Scott Adams [https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays].

“So casually cruel in the name of being honest” is from Taylor Swift [https://www.taylorswift.com/].

The simple model of rational crime [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-science-of-lying_b_6851312] explains a lot!