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The answer is laziness.
At least, that's the answer for me. It's usually easier to do something bad than to do the right thing. The laziness can be a physical laziness, or it can be a mental or emotional laziness too.
On some level, I want to do bad things. I recognize that they are bad things. Sometimes, my willpower is greater than my urge to do a bad thing, and sometimes the urge is greater.
I have no desire to commit murder. In addition, the risks of doing so are very high. So the willpower needed to counter comitting murder doesn't have to be very great to keep me from killing someone.
I do like to surf the web. Doing so at work is really stealing from my employer. I think it's wrong. I do it anyway. I do it because my desire to do it is greater than my willpower to stop. Basically, I'm too lazy to put forth the effort to stop myself. If my boss happened to say that I have a new project that I had to finish in an hour, I would suddenly be motivated to find the willpower to stop.
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