I was raised without religion but still feel guilt. Hard to believe it did not exist
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2k years of selection and cultural conditioning though..., I'm sure people felt guilt in various ways but they had no trouble living with slaves, watching people killed in the arena, they never attempted to help victims of disaster either for example
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"they never attempted to help victims of disaster" Pliny the Elder died trying to save people from the Vesuvius eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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That's an individual act of heroism, I'm not aware of organised relief effort like in modern times? perhaps I'm wrong though
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Emperors often gave tax relief, sometimes helped to rebuild. Only people nearby could help with search and rescue: travel was slow. Rome to Alexandria: 21 days. Rome to Antioch: 26 days.
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Fair enough, I'm not sure how much guilt rather than valour or something else would have been a motivation here, guilt as a complex in the modern sense seems to be a creation of catholicism, I was only using the claim about disaster relief as one way of illustrating the point
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