I've never smuggled anything. I did get secretly married at age 19 to another 19 year old thinking it somehow wouldn't matter in the future. We were married for 22 years and we've been divorced a long time. The "Oh, yeah, I married in secret" thing still is a point of discomfort, though I wasn't doing anything illegal nor immoral.
It helped me say "nope" to the opportunity to launder money while I was homeless and being given no legitimate opportunities and generally being pissed all over by a world that wanted me to know I didn't deserve any legitimate opportunities. I got the memo in a rather harmless way that the past never really dies. You can't just do a thing just this one time and pretend "It's in the past! It doesn't matter!" Life just doesn't actually work that way.
A lot of people seem to learn that a much harder way. Until then, some people figure that what you don't know won't hurt them.
It helped me say "nope" to the opportunity to launder money while I was homeless and being given no legitimate opportunities and generally being pissed all over by a world that wanted me to know I didn't deserve any legitimate opportunities. I got the memo in a rather harmless way that the past never really dies. You can't just do a thing just this one time and pretend "It's in the past! It doesn't matter!" Life just doesn't actually work that way.
A lot of people seem to learn that a much harder way. Until then, some people figure that what you don't know won't hurt them.