Apparently I am going straight to heck then. But of course to each his
own.

My own preference is to practice good system security by myown definition.
That does, in my practice though, not exclude operating as root for short
durations during administrative tasks and system modifications. There's
really no point in typing 'sudo' several hundred times when Ubuntu is
storing your sudo 'login' for fifteen minutes at a time by default anyway,
right?