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Guilt over having more than others does not have a place in those who have had at one point to lift themselves out of the basement of life. To not have your standard of living given to you by your forebears forces you to locate and then operate on your inner strengths by yourself. If you climbed out of the basement by yourself, you feel little guilt when you see others having less because you know that it is in everyone to be able to do this.

Never having to struggle is the source of guilt. Those feeling guilty do not respect the burden their forebears carried to make their lives that much easier. They succumb to every false story by others who want to take their position and wealth via this guilt-extortion without having to bear their own effort to raise themselves.

Religious organizations used this extortion by calling it 'Original Sin' to which everyone was obligated to assuage thru tithing. If you've created your own life from scratch, you see thru this scam and you do not feel guilty.

Basically, if you feel you earned what you have, little or no guilt. You are who you present yourself to be. If your life was given to you, internally you sense you have not earned it, lots of guilt of which you are afraid to admit because it exposes you as a fraud to your outward image.

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If you take a look at what war propaganda is and its purpose. It's purpose is to dehumanize an entire race or group of people. Naturally people do not think that walking around and murdering other families because a murderer is on the loose is ok. War propaganda does this. Guilt by association is a lie and evil.

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Is feeling guilt something that belongs to the christian way of living? I quote: When people defend China, Russia, Hamas, that’s all fine, but my first question is, would you actually want to live there?” You're right but does 'defend' means accepting the geopolitics behind the war against Russia using Ukrain to acheive geopolitical goals? As far as I read Russia did what the US did in former Yugoslavia. Thus accepting the one forces to accept the other and that does not mean accepting the way life is organised in these countries.

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Holy Schneikies😱

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I wonder, do you personally feel some kind of guilt, or are more commenting on the guilt you see in other Westerners?

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