Mutually Assured Destruction (Theatre Planners at Odyssey Theatre) Peter Lefcourt's hilarious and wonderfully calibrated play about three couples, lying to hide their guilt and to avoid confrontations, had a crackerjack production from director Terri Hanauer and a top notch cast, led by Kip Gilman, Michael Caldwell, Bobby Costanzo, Gina Hecht, Stuart Pankin and Brynn Thayer.
Multiple moral motives have been proposed to explain reciprocity behavior, including preferences for consequentialism3, in which people seek fairness in outcomes (inequity aversion4,5), and sentimentalism6, in which people are motivated by feelings such as guilt in order to avoid harming others (guilt aversion7)8.
* Was, in most cases, hypercritical of others, particularly family members, and tended to transfer his or her anger and guilt toward others to avoid facing the gambling problem.
Three days later, he recanted, saying he had been pressured by his lawyer at the time to admit guilt in order to avoid the death penalty.
Sirhan's lawyers instead conceded his guilt and tried to avoid a death sentence by focusing on Sirhan's mental health.
The guilt is hard to avoid.
Given that the unfavourable outcome in patients with surrogate consent is often due to their initial clinical state (rather than inclusion in a trial per se), the issue of the family's feelings of guilt (and how to avoid these feelings) should be further addressed.
Sacrifice is not a way to avoid guilt or to excuse guilt, it is a repetition of guilt.
To avoid guilt, she goes (by train).
"It's a way to share the responsibility," and, perhaps, to avoid guilt.
