"However, in this instance, the finding of guilt under these particular circumstances raises questions that should counsel leniency with regard to sentencing". .
While I am not sure I am 100percentt on board with the idea that guilt is wholly negative (how much bad behavior is prevented, for instance, by a healthy sense of guilt, or conscience?) Trask makes a compelling case that corrosive guilt of the variety that becomes self-hatred or low self-esteem has a deleterious effect on human behavior in many ways.
Almost every senior woman in business disagrees: quotas would devalue women's achievements, and so on and on – although it is hard, for instance, to detect any sign of guilt among MPs who are in parliament because of women-only shortlists.
The rainbow of human emotions is certainly vaster -think, for instance, of contempt, envy, shame, guilt, or even love.
It is likely that an international spy and assassin cannot spend too much time worrying about remorse, so we are not surprised that there are no documented instances of alcohol associated guilt.
For instance, the negative attributions of patients about the origin of their depression (feelings of guilt and worthlessness) are well known (Beck et al. 1985).
They also talked about feelings of guilt and about hiding from others, by staying at home for instance.
Feelings of guilt might lead a person to go over and over events in their mind, for instance, questioning whether they could have done more to save other people.
Under such conditions, the prior odds of guilt, P(H1)/P(H2), equal 1, in which case the DR directly indicates the posterior odds of guilt.
