I am looking for counter arguments. The only way I am going to discover the truth is through your ideas. This is a progressing thought, I don't presume to be right. If you are religious substitute God for Nature. In the beginning of my thoughts on guilt, I was looking for its purpose. I believe that all life is balanced everything adds up to zero. Physics has suggested that nothing is created or destroyed. I don’t believe that we have evolved past the principles of Nature and are continually subject to its principles. Being this isn’t a discourse on balance, please read this with the assumption that the previous statement is true. If everything is in balance what is guilt balancing and what is it replacing. Guilt is self induced emotional abuse. When we hurt someone one, we hurt ourselves as penance for doing wrong. We balance the scales by punishing ourselves for our poor behavior. Once the act of guilt has been initiated, we are now justified and blameless until we hurt another. ...