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redshift
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posted 06 October 2003 01:58 PM

i am wrong, i admit guilt and claim responsibility.where has that principle gone?
and can we live without it?

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WingNut
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posted 06 October 2003 02:03 PM

It was litigated out of existance.

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Lima Bean
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posted 06 October 2003 02:10 PM

I watched Michael Moore's "Roger & Me" about the GM plant closures in Flint, MI for the first time last night. It was chock full of the glaring absence of 'mea culpas' in these modern times. Seems like everyone's attitude was "I'm just doing my job, it's not my fault..."

And then they'd get fired and not even see the irony...

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nonsuch
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posted 06 October 2003 09:06 PM

Individually, we can live without it - thrive, even. There is a whole (lucrative) school of psychological counsellors in the business of absolving middle-aged people of all responsibility, because their (now) elderly parents were 'abusive' and/or 'absent' during their formative years. Never mind what those parents had to deal with, or what they had been taught: they're guilty and we're not.

As a society, if we give up personal guilt, we're doomed. Guilt demands restitution or amends of some kind. If we don't pay our debts, society never regains balance; it just keeps leaning toward those who feel no shame until it topples over.

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paxamillion
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posted 06 October 2003 09:44 PM

From AA's 12 Steps of Recovery.....

quote:
Step 8 - Made a list of all people we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
Step 9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

Not easy at first. But for me, very helpful.

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