Sociopaths generally accept their behaviour as natural, feel no guilt when they hurt others, see little reason for or possibility of change, and resist therapy.
"The great saboteur of life's natural joy is guilt," Trask writes in "Living Free".
"Fact - Stephen Gately died from natural causes, not from guilt," wrote Street-Porter, who knew Gately, describing him as "almost too innocent for his own good".
When one is oneself the wronging party, reflecting upon or coming to realize the wrong done to another, the natural reactive attitude is guilt.
It is normal and natural to be ridden by guilt, by jealousy and misery".
But the lake's mysterious depths are suggestive of the links between them – conflict between the natural and the manmade worlds, guilt and paralysis about climate change, the sense that many of us are emotionally or ecologically on the brink.
During the past few decades, judges have begun to worry about the fairness of prosecuting people for the natural impulse to deny their guilt, and several federal courts carved out an exception to the False Statements Act, called the "exculpatory no," which held that certain lies of self-protection weren't felonies.
Guilt is a natural reaction to financial woes.
The first step is to acknowledge that your guilt is born from a positive and natural desire to protect the relationships that are important to you.
The question remains, is eating "natural" or "humanely raised" veal guilt-free?
