The problem is our modern society attempts to deny that sin even exists. They are all victims. Their parents abused them. They came from a poor environment. Their home town didn't offer midnight basketball.
Nobody wants to take any blame for sin.
It may be relabeled, so that it is not acknowledged as sin at all. It may be considered a matter of sickness, deprivation, ignorance, or perhaps social mal-adjustment at worst. Another way of denying our sin is to admit the wrongness of what we have done, but to decline to take responsibility for it. Erickson goes on to list 11 consequences of sin. Sin has serious consequences.