The way people are trained to contrive guilt and regret on demand traps them in cycles of karmic poison.
A guilt complex becomes a self-sustaining cycle, and a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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The exit from that path is in honesty and lucidity. Seeing why things happen, why said things happening is dumb and what needs to happen in order for it to change.
Conditioning people to feel endless guilt and contrition only serves to create patterns of avoidance.