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Is it normal to think that life would be easier if you were willing to take advantage of other people, or not worry about how your actions affect others, or if you were willing to lie, cheat and steal to get ahead, even if you know you never would?
What you describe is psychopathy: the lack of a sense of ethics or of the rights of other people.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people like that around, and some of them rise very high, sometimes right to the very top.
Tbh I'm frightened by how many people I've known who actually make a life of doing those things.
The one I'm thinking of most strongly lied to me so badly she made me think I needed to see a psychiatrist because I was perceiving things 'wrong'. She says she struggles with a 'guilt complex' and sees a therapist about it, as if the remorse she felt were some kind of mental illness. In an indirect kinda way, I know she has been very unhappy, and lives in a kind of fear of everyone, cosying up to people, hastily building alliances lest she be exposed, and she has a long list of 'nemeses' whom she campaigns against with her cronies, who buffer and protect her against them. Her 'friends' are the people who could potentially do her and others the most harm; when you live like that you have to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. She is pitiful; hard to respect, although easy to be drawn to all her charisma. She inspires a kind of affection mixed with disgust. Her life looks like it's on the verge of political collapse, and it'd take just one rogue to bring that about - unless she or one of her gang silenced and disposed of them first. Like they disposed of me.
You don't want to live like her. The further you go down the path of deviance, the further you have to go still, to cover your tracks and protect yourself. The danger this puts you in just increases exponentially, because although you might not feel the evil of the things you do as an 'amoral' person, other people certainly will! What's more, they'll likely retaliate. And will you be amoral to the point of not feeling the retaliation? Fat chance. When you've been fired from your job and can't pay your rent, you'll feel it. In addition to all this, let us not forget also that one day your soul will be demanded of you and tried, like the rest of us...
Who knows? Maybe one day society will become so 'liberated' and 'progressive' that it view moral conscience as a mental illness too. I shudder at the thought.
But then, I don't think it's helpful to 'worry' about our actions affecting people if we are already acting with a clear conscience.
yup I wonder about that but unfortunately my brain is wired to be empathetic and be conscientious.
Trump does that all the time. And he's got tons of money and tons of fame. So what's wrong with it?