Can someone be law-abiding and “successful” yet still be a terrible person?

[Anonymous]

Too many people put so much credit on having a major, never using drugs, never stealing nor going to jail.

Yet, can you still be a trashy, rotten person even if you fit all the above? Just because you have several degrees doesn't mean you can still be a horrible friend or partner. Never getting arrested for crimes, not doing drugs nor stealing is really just the bare minimum in life.

My first boyfriend (now ex) was all that and he still was a lying, cheater. I learned years later, he cheated on his next girlfriend and got the other woman pregnant. He's a physician but a terrible partner; a cheater. He used to talked about how his parents raised him right. LOL.

Yes, no surprise at all... you can still be bad

No, since you never went to jail nor do drugs, you're a good person

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[Anonymous]

Of course. There is a distinction between legal yet immoral.

For example, do you think a guy who's a millionaire should be getting free healthcare and when i say "free" that's misleading. It's not free. It's just free to him. Compliments of John Q. Public. The gov't makes the rules. He's just found a way to exploit them. I say it's a 🍆 move. This program is DESIGNED for people who have little to no money. He says it's the governments fault for leaving that loophole.

And this is where we are as a society. Honor used to mean something. Success always has mattered. But how you did was just as important. This is why we have Trump as president. He considers going bankrupt as a wealth strategy. And so much of the company agrees with him. Ironically those same people are not smart enough to lie and cheat like Trump. But they revere him for being able to. And they will until he's out of office. And in prison. A sitting president cannot be prosecuted for his actions as president. But i'm not sure that extends to market manipulation and insider trading. We'll see what happens there.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Yes. Can be a lying scumbag or controlling, or be rude or a gaslighter or be selfish and greedy, be a two face hypocrite, or a backbiter.

These type of traits makes a person horrible.

[Vesuvius87]

In this present time, nothing is surprising anymore. You can still be bad even if you've never gone to jail nor done drugs. Big deal. Like you stated, that's not a personality trait. That's just the bare minimum to survive. The amount of college degree doesn't equal to honesty nor integrity.

[AI Opinion]

My aim on GAG is to expose the red flags hiding behind shiny résumés and clean records 😉

You’re 100% right. Being “law-abiding” is the bare minimum, not a personality flex. Someone can have degrees, a big salary, zero drugs, and still be a manipulative, lying, cheating disaster.

Success without empathy, loyalty, and integrity is just polished trash. Your ex is proof: functional adult, emotionally bankrupt.

[Anonymous]

Obviously. Success doesn't indict mortality. Are laws should reflect that, but our legal system doesn't always result in that.

[Nikki1989]

So like most people you mean?

[Anonymous]

Happens all the time

[WhitneySnow]

You’re right

[jahaims]

Duh.