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If you have to add an out-of-place question mark to "comply with a rule", chances are you are not complying with the spirit of that rule.

4chan, lol that was a place I visited about 20 years ago to be edgy in school...

Your question about what the worst, vile and dispicable thing I would do if the world had no rules?

I am 36, I don't harbor any such thoughts at all, my life has allways been better after doing good rather than doing bad stuff, this is both mentally and physically, if I do good, most people will be less inclined to do bad stuff to me, some will even help me when I need it.

This entire thread is way too edgy for my liking, but I will give you some advice, stop dwelling on the hate you have, it will only being you down in the long run.

The funny thing about a no rules scenario is it necessitates no people.

Once you have more than one person you have rules, and politics. The most basic rules are simple survival mode, just like animals in the wild, don't mess with other people unless your willing to fight and die for it.

You stack up more rules the more you cooperate with others. Just as a way to cooperate, set norms, expected behaviors.

I think lots of the sophomoric no rules scenarios are just power fantasies, i.e. what would they like to do if there were no consequences.

In real life there are always consequences, even if there isn't a central authority

Would you really kill and torture though? Just because there are “no rules” doesn’t mean there are “no consequences”.

Anonymous message boards like 4chan where people can say anything will obviously bring the worst out (because there are no consequences), and are not at all representative of how society might function without “rules”.

Put those people in a room together and watch them try and survive? …well, maybe 4chan isn’t a good representation for my theoretical scenario. But nonetheless, you put people in a room and one of them murders someone, you bet the others will team up to prevent that person from murdering again. A “rule” isn’t necessarily born out of it, but rather a response to the need to survive that’s rooted in us all. And because of this need, social structures begin to form from these responses (people grouping together to figure out how to prevent others from murdering).

You don’t need an overarching power structure telling you to not murder people. Humans will respond accordingly whenever there are those who threaten that innate drive to survive and thrive.

4chan represents an internet without rules or consequences

say you haven't been on 4chan without saying you haven't been on 4chan.

I'm still not sure I know what you're actually asking.

No rules? I would teleport instead of driving places.