Tim Cook wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Does it? One can feel guilty without external stimulus, I'm sure. 
>> Certainly one can be trained to feel guilty without specific 
>> per-occurrence corroboration.
> 
> I imagine that must be terribly confusing when you have that and stop to 
> actually think about it.

Perhaps I wasn't clear.  You can be taught to feel guilty for (say) eating 
the wrong kinds of food together, or for looking at a pretty girl, or 
something like that. The teacher doesn't have to be around to make you feel 
guilty every time you look at a pretty girl. It's not confusing to you; you 
just know it's wrong to look at pretty girls.

> Enough to incite a person to take an action to 
> justify the guilty feeling.

Yeah, like teaching the next generation the same crap.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Understanding the structure of the universe
    via religion is like understanding the
     structure of computers via Tron.

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