Your guilty conscience and you

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

I don't really feel guilt. I know right from wrong and everything but when i very rarely do simething wrong i don't feel guilty about it. In fact, i don't feel most of the spectrum of human emotion very often, I'm pretty much indifferent to everything which kind of sucks.

 

[soulasylum85]

if what im doing causes harm or discomfort to anyone else i just dont do it because i always feel guilty to the point that i cant sleep. so i figure the best way to avoid this is to be honest all the time.

 

[Scobie]

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[Agent Larkin]

My guilty conscience dosn't affect me unless i have done something really bad.

 

[Anachronism]

I agree. Chivalry is not dead, it is merely sleeping.

How dare you even insinuate that chivalry is sleeping or in any way not present? I demand satisfaction of you, sirrah! -slaps with glove-

When will people learn to challenge someone to a duel properly?! You do not slap them with the gauntlet; you throw the gauntlet on the floor at their feet, and if they pick it up, that means they have accepted the duel.

I do tend to have quite a guilty conscience, unfortunately. I try to always do what I feel is right, but I have this really annoying tendency to obsessive-compulsively over-analyse everything. The result of that is that I tend to go back over past events, thinking about what happened, and worrying if anything I said or did could be construed as hurtful. It's really irritating, although I suppose it does help with regards to trying to do what I feel is the right thing.

 

[Nmil-ek]

My conscience has always been a *****, I dont have many problems with indirectly lying or stealing but when it comes to face to face im a bleeding heart by nature.

 

[WeedWorm]

I dont have a guilty conscience. I do what I want and if people dont like it, I really dont care.

 

[DrDeath3191]

I try to avoid going against my morals. When I do, my conscience bothers me for quite a while. Sometimes, that's enough to avoid repeating the offense, sometimes it requires another sort of nudge. It depends upon the act.

 

[Bellvedere]

When I was much younger I used to feel guilty for everything, not returning a library book on time, not giving my mom the school newletter, printing something out without asking. It used to keep me up for ages at night and I remember being able to feel my heart pounding and I would pace around not being able to sleep.

I think it is pretty normal now that though I feel guilty over some stuff I can very easily put it in the back of my mind and not worry about it at all. I really shouldn't be skipping class, I should be doing my assignments, I shouldn't be handing my assignments in late, I should study for exams more then the morning before kind of thing.

My real problem is refusing people. Face to face is someone asks me to do something (reasonable mind - not something I have a huge problem) I can hardly ever say no. The obvious stuff like asking me to go out drinking but also things like my boss asking me to come in and work the next day. I feel terrible letting people down.

 

[aruseusx]

If my conscience was a person i would tie it in a basement and keep it down there. Then my conscience would tell me to untie him. Wanker.

 

[Hoxton]

bollocks.
Skipping class and shitting your pants about it indicates that you're a wuss and never been in any trouble. And that you're a nerd.
That's not guilt you're feeling, that's called FEAR. And frankly fear of being yelled at by the teachers is lame.
The few times i felt guilt it was because i treated badly some of my ex's, and that's about it.

 

[Vrex360]

My consience I imagine as a giant monster with big claws that perches on my desk and shouts at me to better myself. However he always does it in a way that makes me feel guilty but never motivates me to aspire to change. For instance I am writing a huge sci fi epic novel for the last couple of years and I stopped a while back after getting writers block and deciding to change some aspects of the story which would take a LOT of editing (it is currently 286 pages long in small font which if it was published is something like TWICE that number) and so I'm just kind of at a standstill with it and am now getting ideas for a crime lord story that features a violent yet noble masked vigilante and his older sister who is a sexual legend as two of the many characters... but my consience keeps making me feel guilty for starting a new story (or series of short stories) when there's still another that's only half finished.
My consience is a JERK.

 

[traceur_]

I don't need a conscience, I've got little Alex here on my shoulder to guide me.

 

[War Penguin]

My conscience always kicks me in the balls.
I know it makes me a better person, but I still feel like shit when I do something wrong.
It even caused me to be the good guy in every video game where you choose which side to take.
Joke all you want but it's true.

 

[Fingerprint]

It's a difficult one for me to answer; I do/did feel guilty when I took a day off work - I've been at the same place for 18months - it was the first (and so far only) day that I've taken off that wasn't allowed and at first I felt guilty but my guilt dissipated because I spent the day in the snow with the girl of my dreams. I felt guilty because I felt the people were going to be stuck without me (though I kinda knew they wouldn't be, really). But say I call my rugby coach and say I can't play for whatever reason, I feel no guilt at all, even though the reality is that the rugby team would be worse off with one less man than work would (thats not to say I'm an awesome player but it's a fairly small club without a great deal of players).

I suppose that my conscience affects (effects ?) a lot of what I do but often without me realising, I try to be as honest as I feel I can be, I try not to lie, and I don't steal so I suppose it does make a difference.

 

[ae86gamer]

My conscience effects my every choice. I usually try and make decisions where no one but me will be affected. When I was younger it didn't affect me at all, but now as I'm getting older it does.

 

[Lord George]

I never feel guilty, if they got screwed over by me or by something I caused then its there fault that they weren't able to avoid it. One of my earliest vivid memories actually is of tripping a girl up, and then being told that it was wrong by a teacher, I knew it was considered wrong but I didn't feel guilty about it in the slightest, and that's how things have continued.

 

[Time Travelling Toaster]

I don't know actually, my conscience hasn't really started yet since I've not done anything evil yet

 

[FinalGamer]

I have a strong moral conscience except concerning "an eye for an eye" situations. My conscience even affects how I play videogames.
I can never EVER get the evil/bad endings in videogames because I refuse to even be villainous in a game in certain parameters, as well as concerning an attachment to the world or its characters. Oblivion for example I find a very lifeless world concerning people and the fact almost everyone is an asshole makes it easier.

On the other hand, smaller worlds with personality such as Shenmue will be greatly affected and driven by my conscience. For starters when I failed to stop a soccer ball hitting a kid in a QTE I became greatly upset over the next few days. And I mean upset enough that my heart hurts.

There was also when I played The Suffering and I played entirely a good person, one example of my conscience being when I shot a tortured limbless guard to end his suffering and the game rewarded me for such, despite having no indication to give me the choice. On the other hand the game punished me for killing two monsters trapped in cages, again certain violent situations my morality becomes more darker.

Actually here's a recent example, I was playing EcoQuest, an environmental point-click game by Sierra and when the game indicated I hadn't properly disposed of the rings off a six-pack, I reloaded from my last save, went all the way up and properly disposed of them.
Yes I still have fun in Fallout 3 but I will NEVER blow up Megaton.