DEUT618 There is one and only one mitzvah in the Torah in which the sin is clearly instigating someone else to do evil: goading a person to worship idols [Deuteronomy 13: 7-12]. The Torah talks about such a person in the most heinous terms. The sin of idol worship is so hated in the Torah that even if the person only incited another to do the deed (and even if the deed was never even done), the inciter is punishable. It is the only case of incitement where a human court can exact punishment. However, because idol worship is such a horrible sin, one may not extrapolate and generalize the sin of incitement to any other sins mentioned in the Torah (Sanhedrin 29a).