I think Christianity and the concept of sin did much to engineer the guilt in the first place, it doesn't seem to have existed in classical times, those thought patterns are now secularised into various pathologies
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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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Well, hell. I'm being selected against then. With great reverence I ask
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(I think a purely cultural account of this would work tbf, but having said it the selection angle is interesting)
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Pseudoscientific but interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt-Shame-Fear_spectrum_of_cultures … Anglos classified as shame driven, rather than primarily guilt driven.
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Blacks don't blush= no shame. Incompatible with western culture.
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seen studies showing euros have higher rates of anxiety even after controlling for # of things. guilt could just be whatever rationalisation is used to explain inate anxiety. christians say original sin, progressives say white guilt, eco say hurting planet.
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