Any advice on putting together a Criminal!Naruto?

Yes, that makes sense, but I was asking more from a psychological standpoint.

Obviously, if a guy starts indiscriminately slaughtering people, he's gone way off the deep end. Your explanation only accounts for extremes, and your examples include only external responses to external forces. There's a large spectrum of behaviors between that and naivety.

I'm asking about how a person - in the absence of immediate, external forces pressing him to make a decision now - views the world. There was a reddit thread a few weeks ago about people who got in trouble at work because their leniency towards the customers wasn't exactly par for the course with regard to work policies. The vast majority of them swore never go out of their way to help a customer ever again.

For example, Person A told a customer he sympathized with, Person B, how to bypass the upselling/stonewalling escalation chain of CSRs in order to get a refund pro rata. This was NOT against written company policies at the time, and it was the first/only time Person A ever did it. As soon as the first CSR started trying to talk Person B out of the refund, he says "Person A told me to do X, Y, and Z to get my refund so stfu and let me speak to Supervisor ___ right now!" Person B got their refund and went on their merry way. Person A got in trouble for enabling a refund.

From this experience, person A "learned" that people are too stupid to show tact, and if person A ever wanted to help people like this again, then person A would have to explicitly state "do not let them know I told you this!" because it apparently wasn't common sense to not throw your allies under a bus. HOWEVER, this opens up person A to more trouble, because if the customer blabs anyways, person A gets into even deeper shit than before, because now it's obvious he's doing something he shouldn't. Therefore, the safest choice is to assume everyone is an idiotic blabbermouth - and consequently, it's neither safe nor worth the effort to go out of your way to help them.

So, did person A become smarter and adapted to the real world better? Or is assuming "all work clients are dumb, I should never go above and beyond for them" dark/cynical/edgy?

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