So With Little Power Comes Little Responsibility?

Before I start, I just wanted to mention that this post will contain extensive spoilers for the cartoon Megamind.  If you haven't seen it yet and don't want to ruin it, then I suggest you don't proceed.  :)  My wife and I were watching it and it lead to an interesting discussion and I want to share some of it.

In the show, Megamind is a self proclaimed evil genius that has just taken over his city.  One day he decides to give another character superpowers so he has someone to fight.  This character called Titan then proceeds to take over the city from Megamind.  Megamind comments that "Titan has turned evil."

We asked why did the characters say "Titan turned evil" rather than saying "Titan was evil."  It's like they were saying giving Titan superpowers suddenly made him a bad guy.  It lead us to that quote from Spiderman "With great power comes great responsibility."  We started to wonder, does that mean if you don't have any power you don't have to be as responsible?  Why wasn't Titan evil before he got his powers?

I noticed there were a few indications of Titan's character before he got his power.  He was trying to subtly manipulate his co-worker into dating him.  He threw a very childish tantrum when he finally asked his co-worker on a date and she turned him down.  Titan's new powers didn't change who he was.  The powers just made him think he didn't have to be responsible for his actions.  That he could now be evil and he wouldn't be penalized.

We are all just as responsible for our actions whether we have little or a lot of power.  Stealing office supplies is just as wrong as stealing money.  It seems society has put a grading scale on bad behaviors to try to justify the small ones.  They claim you don't have to feel as bad if you like to do little bad things.

Sure, the severity of a sin is connected with the severity of the consequences, but no matter the size of the sin, it causes us to step farther from God and loose His blessings.  It reminds me of Matthew 6:24:

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."

No matter how far across the "evil line" we choose to go, we are still on the evil side of the line.  What determines where we are are our current desires.  We can try to balance between choosing sin and righteousness but until we choose to let go of our desire to sin we aren't moving towards God.
When we choose to have a change of heart and we sincerely want what is right, we qualify ourselves for the grace of God.  This means all of our sins become mistakes.  They are no longer choices to do wrong, but unintentional mistakes we make along our path of life.