I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.
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Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they think they're the right thing to do, but they're misplaced.
I think people, whether they realize they're doing it or not, seek out distractions to take their minds off what they know is bad behavior.
There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need to do - or want to do - next. They see nothing wrong with it. They feel no guilt. They express no guilt. And it's not even certain what harm they do.
I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.
Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty.
Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.
Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.
I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good.
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