/lit/ - Literature

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>Anyone who owns a dog has seen that thing experience guilt when he knows hes done something wrong.
That’s been debunked for nearly ten years now. Dogs don’t feel guilt - they experience fear... Fear of your reaction, fear of being scolded. We project guilt onto them by anthropomorphising their fear reaction as guilt, but in the end they don’t feel bad for what they did, they’re just scared you’ll grab a rolled up newspaper. Guilt isn’t a natural construct, but it’s a useful social construct.