Has a character flaw ever kept you from being a criminal?

Honesty.

I believe my anxiety has kept me from possibly having a drug habit.
I’d like to think it’s because I’m better than that, and now I believe I am. But back in the day, who knows.

Morals and honesty.

nope , I’ve done so many unlawful things it ain’t funny.

Generally what has kept me from being a criminal is 1) for the most part I’m an honest and ethical person, 2) I have a tremendous fear of going to jail and 3) like you, I’m just too lazy to pursue criminal activities. The first item works a lot of the time, but if there’s a chance of that one failing me, I have numbers 2 & 3 to back me up. It’s a trio of characteristics that has kept me on the straight and narrow my entire life.

Being a scaredy-cat. I’d be so afraid of getting caught, I’d be sick.

I don’t think honesty is a character flaw.

Ethics and chickenness!

Anxiety and the ability to be read easily. I’m also very much into honesty, so a criminal lifestyle wouldn’t work for me. However, there have been several times where I’ve heard about people getting caught for stupid things and I think of how I would’ve done whatever the crime was and gotten away with it, if I wanted to and was dumb enough to actually follow through with the urge to commit a crime.

I see all your points, but I don’t think any of these are character flaws:
Ethics
Honesty
Anxiety

Nor is lack of physical strength, or lack of opportunity.

Chickenness… that’s close. If we say “cowardice” it’s clearly a winner. If we say, “fear of consequences”, then it’s proof that punishment is a good idea.

I hate the fuzz, man so the less crime i commit the less chance I’ll have to deal with the f**n pigs, man! ~

I don’t think I have any real flaws that keep me from being a murderer or some kinda thief, but rather like, not wanting to hurt people, or go to jail lol.

Cops have buckets and buckets of character flaws, in this situation. Had it not been for my character flaw, I would be spending 100s of thousands of dollars, from drug dealers, down in Jamaica.

I would also be spending that million dollars i guarded by myself, over the Christmas weekend, years ago.

Thank God I have character flaws.

Hmm, if I weren’t moral and honest, I wonder if I’d still be too lazy to go to all of the work it would take to pull off a decent crime and cover it up.

Exactly what @phaedryx said. I’m way too ethical to even seriously contemplate committing a crime, but if I weren’t, laziness would be my downfall anyway.

Never thought about it before, but shyness would deter me. If it didn’t, laziness would crush any remaining thoughts.

Being honest and ethical aren’t character flaws. Lazy is a little different, and I got that one too.

I have no patience. A good criminal needs it.

@Simone_De_Beauvoir Depends upon the crime, no? Seems like you’re ripe for a crime of passion.

@6rant6 Does it?

@Simone_De_Beauvoir Well, yeah. I don’t think you need patience to start a bar fight.

@6rant6 Yeah, I’d never be that kind of criminal.

@Simone_De_Beauvoir Well let’s see what other crime of impetuousness are there? Copping a feel? Driving under the influence? Going to fast? Failure to yield?

@6rant6 Yeah, I suppose I’ve committed many ‘crimes’ before that I don’t consider to be such.

Obsessive guilt. The payoff has never been worth it. Oh well

Yes…I like good food, walks in the woods and women.

I’m a lazy, disorganised chicken. I’d be nabbed in a flash. And I like luxury so I can’t do jail.