Being Bad

I'm not a bad man, but I acted badly - thus some American ex-sportsman, on a murder charge, apologising. Fascinating. When does acting badly become being bad?

I once told someone I knew well that I couldn't accept the idea of a deeper self, one hidden as it were, from public view, the sort of Deep down I'm a good guy idea. I posited the notion that we are what we do.

I'm still inclined to think that way. And unless we know what we do, we fail to know ourselves.

Since self deception is the easiest deception of all to practise it is, to say the least, useful to find out what others think - really think - of us, and what we actually do. For, so often, we know not what we do.