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“Guilt simply cannot tell me whether I am a good person or a bad person. There is no chart on which I can check the amount of guilt I’m feeling and see how it corresponds to my “goodness” or otherwise. Guilt is a reflection of my thinking about a certain action or behavior I have taken, or not taken, in the past. Guilt does not and cannot change the past. It often doesn’t even stop a person from taking the same action again in similar circumstances.” — Ankush Jain
Guilt simply cannot tell me whether I am a good person or a bad person. There is no chart on which I can check the amount of guilt I’m feeling and see how it corresponds to my “goodness” or otherwise. Guilt is a reflection of my thinking about a certain action or behavior I have taken, or not taken, in the past. Guilt does not and cannot change the past. It often doesn’t even stop a person from taking the same action again in similar circumstances.