I’ve done worse than that to more people in my youth, plenty will have if they were honest enough to stop for a minute and think about it.
Yeah sure, if you define worse by illegal, ie drunk driving or illegal drugs…maybe. But I doubt the majority of people will have done anything that clearly demonstrates a sneering contempt for other people and a complete lack of empathy.
I am struggling to think of a time in my youth when I made a conscious public effort to belittle or dehumanise someone. Nope. Can’t think of any.
I do vividly remember getting into a brawl with a gang of scumbags one freezing night because they assaulted the homeless guy I’d just given my hat to. Maybe that was worse.