re: #407 Oh no…Sand People!

Well for example it appears the only weapon liberals have on people is ‘guilt’ and ‘self loathing’. To me ‘guilt’ comes in the form of failing to live up to a moral codex given by a higher power, perhaps it’s fantasy on my part. If we are a secular society in government, hence no God, how can we feel guilt? To what are we to feel guilty to? For what?

Guilt and shame are inculcated by one’s upbringing. One’s conscience is (in normal people, not sociopaths or psychopaths) a grown thing, and one answers to it. It hasn’t much to do with worrying about what the gods make of one’s thoughts.

In other words, one feels guilty to oneself.