Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!mhuxm!pyuxww!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Guilt - (nf) Message-ID: <446@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 17:12:25 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxn.446 Posted: Mon Feb 6 17:12:25 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 09:07:05 EST References: <2439@fortune.UUCP> Organization: Central Services Org., Piscataway N.J. Lines: 15 This assumes that the reason one feels guilt over something is that it IS wrong, rather than simply FEELING that it is wrong. The difference is very important. Religions, parents, teachers, etc., have the power to indoctrinate people into believing that things are wrong. Thus the wrongness may not be with the action, but with the guilt itself. If someone has done a truly wrong action, chances are that they won't feel guilt. More likely, they'll feel fear at the possibility of getting caught, which is probably the root of more of what we call 'guilt' in Western society than we realize. If religions/philosophers/whatever lead us to behave in certain ways out of fear and guilt instead of out of rationality, then we are nothing but a race of infants from an emotional and social perspective. -- Pardon me for breathing... Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr