COSTA RICAN TIMES
When I grew up priests and nuns often manipulated people through guilt. That insight into guilt, which seemed even in my teens to be a junk emotion, was a main reason I dropped the Church like a millstone at 17.
Conscience is entirely a different matter. Guilt is conscience suppressed, whereas conscience is one’s mistakes addressed.
All people, except psychopaths, sociopaths and narcissists (ok, there are a lot of exceptions nowadays) have a conscience. But most people don’t “bring up for discussion or solution” the promptings of their conscience. Hence the residue guilt, which kills conscience.
In a culture in which it’s become de rigueur to ‘ghost’ people, guilt is seen as an emotion to stifle or ignore. Though the ghosting perpetrator represses pangs of guilt, ignoring someone
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