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Guilt is self punishment for failing to fulfill the
expectations of internalized important other persons who
would excommunicate those who fail to fulfill
expectations. Guilt is negative in character; does not
motivate helpful behavior; inhibits creativity and
initiatives; sets the stage for expectations and
excommunications which will occasion guilt in the next
generation.
Guilt is a form of affirmation of the propriety of
expectations which have not been fulfilled. Thus a
failure to fulfill the expectation that guilt will be
experienced (upon failing to fulfill the proper behavior
pattern) is a failure which may generate a sense of guilt
for not experiencing of the "first-order" guilt. "Third-
order" guilt may also be experienced by people escaping
the entrapment of the way of guilt.
To refuse to experience guilt may be taken as treason
against the state of mind which affirms legalistic
expectations; for guilt itself is the sacrificial offering
given to such a state---as an act of worship. To refuse
to make that offering may be interpreted as treason--just
as the early Christians' refusal to make offerings to the
Roman State's gods was interpreted as treason. People who
refuse to be guilty---are thus often punished for refusing
to punish themselves--- for their failure to conform to
external expectations. The state is particularly
threatened by those who have the audacity not to feel
guilty about not feeling guilty--such people are so
immoral as to constitute a grave threat to the morals of
those about them. Such people may promote nonconformist
initiatives and creativity--- which may overthrow the
state of traditional expectations.
When informal means of enforcing traditional
expectations do not work, the state may bring to bear
informal judicial procedures to coerce conformity under
the cloak of justice--through actions which have the
appearance of due process, but do not have the love which
is an essential aspect of true justice with power.
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