Was being tongue in cheek. But OK I'll get serious for a second.

For something incredibly vanilla, how about the temptation of piracy? The other day I wanted to watch a series I thought was interesting, but it was grossly overpriced. So I considered pirating it. But then normal inhibitions came in and went "nah not worth the trouble, I can tell Amazon to get bent by just not watching the movie at all and giving them $0. Also I can entertain myself for free by leaving excessively long reddit comments."

For people that do pirate or shoplift, recognizing the action as theft--even if they still do it--is a useful action that can help reason our way out of that behavior. For people that don't act on the urge, it's still useful to note. That recognition provides nuanced insight to understand why people do things instead of ham-handed condemnation. But instead of giving you the bleeding heart take, that type of insight helps us police each other more effectively.

The most dangerous thing to me is us claiming we are wholly righteous people or claiming that bad behavior is wholly foreign. It's not a guilt trip. I noticed if we get excessively self righteous and do something wrong, we do a lot of mental gymnastics to rationalize our actions as righteous. In the process we will entrench our beliefs in pathological behavior--forever doomed to be incapable of change. People don't like this, it tends to make us feel bad knowing part of us is...not very nice. We're not supposed to feel bad though, just note a natural instinct and appreciate that ours is quieter than the common criminal's.

As absurd as it sounds, I value us noting and examining our urges to do "bad" things rather than trying to ignore their existence or living in complete ignorance/denial of how the human mind works.