The Real Face of Guiltiness
Have you ever feel guilty?
Ted Bundy was a serial killer in 1969. All his story was about how he denied his guiltiness and never said “I did this.” He is an excellent example of how people can not feel any guiltiness at all after the terrible act they have done; because it was not only he didn’t say the truth, it was more how he acted under pressure, laughing and saying he will not say the truth. Is there where we can start thinking about how that person can have a perfect sleep? Or even how that kind of person can be so soft and with a perfect smile without guiltiness at all?
I can continue giving thousands and thousands of other examples similar to these where people act terrible with other people and after that, they give their incredible perfect face just around the corner. The reality is that we can ask ourselves why they are living their perfect life without feeling guilty at all. We can start thinking that it could be a problem with their brain, or maybe it is something psychologists and they need help with or that’s what their heart feels and the reality is that they don’t feel anything for nothing.
People can make so many acts that affect other people’s lives, depending on how that terrible act affects their actual situation or actual life, but what do they feel at the moment that they know that what they are doing is not right? I will start by saying that people justify themselves by saying that “they didn’t mean it”, “it’s something that I’m working on,” “It’s because I had a bad childhood,” etc. In my opinion, it is more than a problem, more than having a bad childhood, is more than that. After searching so much to answer my only question of “Why?” Why are people so mean? Why do people seem to not care for others? Why do they act like nothing is happening or happening? Why?
It’s not a religious reason, or lack of morality, or a childhood experience, or a psychological flaw; it’s something in their character, innate to people (and this means it can’t really be changed). That’s where it all depends on the person to make a feeling after the act they do or did.
Sometimes the connection that we have with other personas is something we have to look at very closely because that will be the connection to a terrible feeling or terrible act that these two are facing. Some writers explain that connection like “The crisis of connection deludes us into believing that these problems are not ours,” and maybe that’s what they really are, a false person that doesn’t feel any guilt at all. That’s somehow they are covering the things like I just said at the beginning that maybe they “don’t mean it,” that will be a good example of saying that the problem that occurred was not their fault. Talking in a religious way, people can argue that’s how life is, and sometimes it is about what God wants to give us as life and what he doesn’t. When we talk about the way how people react, some other people say that it is Satan who gets inside their mind and soul and he gets control of the person but thinks for a moment, what happens with all the people in the world? How can Satan be in all minds and souls?
Ok, ok, ok we know that maybe it is not the religion that makes people act that terrible way, maybe it could be something psychological that is affecting their brain and that’s why they make that kind of thing or making them so mean, so maybe it could be that right? But if that could be the case why the most brilliant minds cannot make a solution for it?, or why the hospitals don’t call the doctors at the University of Harvard to find out what is the problem? That would be a good idea, isn’t it?
Let’s continue with the topic on psychology, so in the part of Religion we know or people argue that is about Satan right so what happened on this side of psychology? Continuing with the store of Ted, policies, and psychologists were trying to argue why he never says the truth and after that laugh about it. They were investigated what was the problem in his brain that was making him do all the things he was doing on Guell, so they investigate to know what happens, so they got to the conclusion that is something too sexual arousing, but an article gives more details words “but it was the act of murder that was his most satisfying and final expression of power and control over his victims.”
These were other words that impacted the story more on Ted “Bundy was patient and he normally killed his victims slowly to prolong his own sadistic pleasure.” We can see or also think that he had a psychological problem that has to be treated, but also in that article we can read that he doesn’t want any help. How can people be good people or fix their mental problems if they don’t want any help?
Putting this all together we can also get to the topic of “childhood,” here is when people just justifying their actions, saying that’s how they were treated and that’s the way they learn things in life. Let put again the example of Ted, maybe he was that kind of person because in his childhood he was treated in a bad or terrible way, and that makes him come in as a serial killer and not feel any guiltiness at all. So we can also justify it with that and concluded that’s how they make it not feeling nothing.
Having all these reasons that way people don’t feel anything after acting bad with other persons, I just want to say the version that keeps in on the top of this and that’s is how they are and there’s no religion, psychology treatment or even that childhood affect their entire life, in the way they don’t have any compassion for the people they did their bad acts; because when we talk in the aspect of compassion we can think also that is part of the morality that we have as humans, but compassion is more than only feel kind of guiltiness because we have to really feel it and not say “I’m sorry” and at the corner, they do more terrible things, so that is a false person, who just don’t know nothing about that concept.
So right now you are thinking as a reader what that she knows about the “Real Face of Guiltiness” but the reliability is that I didn’t know anything before doing this research until now. After reading tons and tons of articles, some chapters of some books, cases where their a terrible act and the person don’t feel any about that, that’s what got my attention, so now like I just mentioned above the answer of all my question and my big question of Why? It just so sample, “That’s how their character is.”
Ok ok ok you can also think that is just something that happens for a second on my mind as I’m writing this right? But the answer is no. I will give many examples as I give for all the reasons that they justified their action, I will give me, so stay to see how I discovered it.
First of all, when someone is saying is because Satan gets control of their mind and soul and that’s why they don’t feel anything after doing something bad, but let me give an example of pastor Kenneth Adkins. He was a pastor who had 8 charges in the child of molestation cases. So with this, I want to say that he was a “Pastor” who we suppose that he was all-time with God and he supposes to never do bad things and he ending do it anyways, so in which place, religion is the problem of the guiltiness? A point to my argument.
On the side of psychology, I just will continue talking about Ted example, there were doctors who explain the mental problem that he had, but they never find a solution to it and because like I just explained above also, he didn’t want any help because that’s how he is. Another point to my argument.
Ending with Childhood I will give my own experiences. I had thousands and thousands of problems, I grow up with no father and a mother who didn’t care about me and other civilians. To not get into personal details, my Childhood was the worst, but that doesn’t mean I will be like my parents, that doesn’t mean that I will do bad things and not feel guilty at all, it is all the opposite I have a heart that I will give all the world to be so much better, so when people say “It’s because that’s how they were treated and that’s how they learn to be a parent” I will say that is FALSE because I also had a bad childhood and not because of that I’m like them, I have compassion, real compassion for others, I care for what I do to others and include what they feel. So I will be continuing saying, that’s how they are.
So continuing to think, and I know that you have been thinking on the entire reading, but thinking is the best way to have correct answers. So think about what I just but all the reason why people do bad things and I give the argument. There’s no justification for bad people that do bad things to make them not guilty of what they did, and the only answer to all the questions I have been asking during the entire reading is “That’s how they are.” If you are in a case where you are with one of these people saying the reason or other reason just try to help them or ask, all the time ask why? Otherwise, you know the answer maybe that could help them but depends on them because we know that nothing will help them because there’s nothing wrong the wrong thing is them, not trying to make good things our getting real help because they don’t care and that’s how they are, in that case, let them and don’t let them be part of your feeling, because they don’t have anything and we don’t one-two people to not have a feeling, we rader want one than two.
Guiltiness is a big thing, as I and others we want this to not happen so continues but that’s how life is. All of us want a perfect world without any problem and I really wanted that the word “Guiltienes” never existed, but now with COVID-19 occurring that’s a big wish that never could be true…
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