I don't think they're confused at all.
Edit: No, seriously, they're not. Anything that isn't fun and isn't good doesn't even enter most people's minds, because there's no reason to do it. An amoral man doing stuff he finds to be good fun will generally cross the line to evil precisely where he starts doing all the stuff that he enjoys and that isn't common, because if it's enjoyable and morally acceptable, it'll be common already.
Anything that isn't fun and isn't good doesn't even enter most people's minds, because there's no reason to do it.
Unless you have a really broad definition of 'fun' you're quire wrong here. Sometime people will experiment. Sometimes people will do what they're told not to as a gesture of defiance. Sometimes people will do things that are very harmful to themselves because it is the only way they can strike against forces they are otherwise powerless to resist, like an abusive partner or guardian. Sometimes people mistakenly think they don't have any...
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