When someone talks about a crime....

I feel guilty as fuck. It doesnt matter what the crime was, where it took place, to whom it happened. Although, I am completely not connected nor involved in anyway, every time someone talks about some crime that has occurred, I feel like somehow I had something to do with it...and automatically feel guilty.

Ever heard of any crazy shit like that?

 

No I haven't, but I also sympathize with victims of crimes as well. Maybe not everything but most things I do.

 

I think maybe you're feeling a mixture of empathy and compassion, and a little bit of guilt thrown in (for things you have done but didn't get caught doing). It's perfectly okay that you feel this way, when I hear about people getting hurt or robbed I get a little anxious at first and have this weird thought, "Oh my god, what if next time, that happens to me?". But eventually I get over that and move onto feeling sympathetic, "Well geez, I hope that the victim is getting the help they need". And then if it's a crime that I feel maybe I might or would be able to mentally and physically commit, then I think, "I wonder what would happen to me if I did crime A, B, or C?".

 

Thats not crazy, it comes from a really good place. But you need to work out why you feel guilty? perhaps you believe you should, as a good person, have done something with knowledge you were given?

All i know, is say what you believe, even if it hurts the conversation, speak up if you think what they were doing was wrong. Of course, i understand if the situation is one in which doing so would cause yourself harm, in which case merely do not agree with.

 

You feel guilty because the crime was committed by a human being; If read in the paper that a lion escaped from the local zoo and attacked and killed someone; while you might feel empathy for the victim you wouldn’t feel responsible

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