Christopher Moore

And the point about guilt is that it serves to manage our relationships and help to heal our relationships when they've been damaged.

And really, guilt is the emotion that motivates us to do something about healing our relationships when we've done something to harm them.

So I define guilt as obviously an emotion, actually a complex of emotions, but I define it as a good thing.

And the point about guilt is that it serves to manage our relationships and help to heal our relationships when they've been damaged.

And really guilt is the emotion that motivates us to do something about healing our relationships when we've done something to harm them.

You know, humans are the most social of all species, right?

We live continually in a highly, highly complex social world, and our relationships are an extremely important aspect of our worlds.

And the problem is that if we,

We continually do things all the time to greater or lesser extent that's going to hurt our relationships, right?

Sometimes we act selfishly and so on.

And so we need to have a way of healing the relationships when they become damaged.

And so really that is what guilt does.

It motivates us to heal those relationships and keep those relationships strong.

And there are people like that, of course.

So one of the characteristics of psychopaths is that they don't feel any guilt.

They don't feel remorse for things that they do.

And of course, the relationships the psychopaths have are severely disrupted.

And so you're right.

The guilt is a very it's a functional form of emotion that keeps the relationships that we have strong.

Yeah, I mean, there is this phenomenon that we call guilt proneness.