Tuesday, March 8, 2011
The Redeeming Quality of Remorse
One very prevalent issue in the novel Night is the total lack of remorse felt by the Nazi soldiers after committing such heinous acts. Remorse is a deep and painful regret for one's wrongdoing. When one has remorse, one is at the very least showing that he/she is human and has a conscience. Was there ever a time when you did something for which you felt absolutely no remorse? Post a recount of the events that occurred. Looking back on the situation, do you feel any remorse for your action now? Explain.
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ReplyDeleteI always feel remorse for anything wrong I do. I hate having a guilty conscience. I hate that when I look back and see that I did something hurtful or wrong.
ReplyDeletei was with this guy for about a year. through out the whole relationship i never fussed or argued. no matter what he did or lied about i never fussed. one day i gave him my new number & told him dnt call or text me nomore i no longer want to be in a relationship with yu , yur a waste of my time & i have no time to waste at my age . and never texted back or answered a phone call til this day . & i said this 3 days before it made a complete year & told him to take the presents yu got me & spend it on ___.
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ReplyDeleteI didn't feel remorse when I be giving my sister the silent treatment for about 2 weeks. I give her the silent treatment because she be doing stupid stuff and being annoying. But now as I think about it I still don't feel remorse because she deserve it "sometimes"..
ReplyDeleteI feel remorse over when we was in middle school i used to pick on my cousin. I feel remorse because when we were little we used to be so close. Soon as she hit age 12 she made a big super double 360. So every since then I pick on her every time i see her. Then again I feel any remorse i feel betrayal.
ReplyDeleteI feel remorse whenever I do something wrong or mean to someone. I still feel remorse when I look back on those events.
ReplyDelete& still dont have remorse because until this day he still lying & trying to make his self better.
ReplyDeleteOne time my cousin hurt my little brother and I kind of flipped out. I hit my cousin aside the head with a glass ashtray, he had a cut on the side of his head. It wasn't bad. I didn't feel no remorse after that. I still don't fell no remorse for what I did cause I can be very protective over my brother and my cousin knew that
ReplyDeleteOK I have felt remorse the time me and my father had an issue I may have said some very hurtful things in that argument. Know i look back at the things he told me which he was helping me out and now i realize it so I do regret what I said.
ReplyDeleteTo me, if you have the nerves to bother with me, then you should be able to accept the consequences behind it.But there is one day ,that know i can look back on and laugh at it.Over two months ago i fault my cousin because i thought he stole from me.But know that i have found what i thought he stole from me.I guess what i am saying is that i need to go an be the bigger man and offer an apology.
ReplyDeleteone time i was driving n a bunny got in my way so i ran over it i didn't care that i hit i even thought it was funny but now that i look back at it i still don't care it should of never got in my way.
ReplyDeleteThe time I can say I did something bad was talking back to my dad. He called me on the phone tried to tell me what to do and I told him how can you tell me something and you not even there for me,I don't want to hear it and hung up the phone. I don't feel bad about it at all, I feel if you my dad you should be in my life and be there for me instead of trying to be my friend.
ReplyDeleteSomething I did and didnt feel bad about. Was the time when I disobeyed my mothers husband. Because I told him I was going down the street and would come right back, but didnt. Knowing that it was about to get dark, I went home when I wanted to :).
ReplyDeletei felt remorse one time when i fussed out my dad because he called me selfish and i said a lot of rude things to him. and i didn't feel bad about what i said to him. I'm not selfish.
ReplyDeleteI remember when I was about 9 years of age, and my mom told me to watch my little brother while she took a shower. We started running around in the living room and I bumped the shelf that had a small vase on it. The small vase had tipped over and broke on the floor. When my mom had came into the living room she had saw that the vase was broken. She asked us who broke the vase. I was too scared to tell her the truth so I lied and blamed it on my brother. So my mom gave him a whooping. At the time I was relieved because it wasn't me that was getting punished. But then he started to cry and I really felt bad for I've caused,and starting feeling remorse.
ReplyDeleteOne time me and my cousin drove to Walmart to buy some groceries for my aunt. We tried to get into a parking spot close to the store when a man drove right in our spot we were trying to get in to almost hitting our car. There were no more spots left in the front just the ones all the way in the back. So me and my cousin decided to get the car keys and make a lot of very visible scratches on his car. Then we drove off and went to food lion.
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ReplyDeleteWhen i got to fighting with this girl in the 8th grade and i blackedout and they told me that i had beat her head in the window and i laughed when i found out what happen
ReplyDeleteWHEN I GOT THE FIGHTING WITH THIS DUDE IN THE THIRD GRADE BECAUSE HE WAS THROWING PAPER at me and I told Him to stop and he keep throw paper at me and I STOOD UP AND HE PUSHED ME AND I SLAMMED HIM AND WHEN THE TEACHER GOT ME OFF HIM I WAS SMILING AT HIM AND I HAD NO REMORSE FOR HIM BECAUSE HE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THROWING PAPER AT ME.
ReplyDeleteWhen I got to fight with this girl in seventh grade because she kept running her mouth and saying silk things. I gave her a warning and asked her to stop but she didn't so one day she rode my bus and I beat her until i felt like stopping. She was crying and i was laughing because she had lost. I had no remorse for her then and i still don't have remorse for her now because if she would have stopped when I asked her to then i wouldn't have lead to that situation.
ReplyDeleteWhen i got to fighting with this boy in the sixth grade because he kept talk bout my mom and saying slik thing. I gave him a warning and asked him to stop said stuff bout me mom. And the last day of school i beat his butt. Until he start crying and i was laughing at him. Because he had lost the fight. I don't have no remorse for him.
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ReplyDeleteIf I look back in the past, I see that I tried to handled every situation in a good way so that I wouldn't feel remorse. I made sure that I apologize for something that made me feel remorse in the time that period the situation happened. Some situations can cause you to feel remorse if you act without thinking.
ReplyDeleteCan you be specific about one of those times please?
DeleteMe and my grandma got the fussing one time and I was really being disrespectful at the time but i didn't care. I do have remorse for what i did.
ReplyDeleteDid feel enough remorse to go back and apologize to her?
DeleteI feel bad when I take my anger out on people who don't deserve it but if your constantly talking to me and I have already told you that I have an attitude so leave me alone and let me claim down first so I wont take my frustration out on you,but you steady talking about you or what happened yesterday or the day before then I feel like you are asking for me to snap on you as well. There are times when I feel remorse about some of the things I say to people because they can be hurtful things but other times when I am on that I don't care type attitude.I careless what I said because you asked for it because I told you to leave me alone and I just gave in to what you wanted so I think you deserved it .
ReplyDeleteThe "I don't care attitude" is a defense mechanism used so you can protect yourself from people who may actually mishandle your feelings. The problem is that when you have that type of attitude, you miss out on the people who REALLY care about your feelings. Be careful about that. Also realize that mature people understand that we don't live in the world alone, therefore, we can't just expect people to just LEAVE us alone. What would happen if people actually LEFT YOU ALONE? That would kinda suck. Think about it.
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ReplyDeleteI have done a lot of things I feel remorseful about. One thing I do the most is speak before I think. I do this a lot when im in a bad mood or I feel like you trying to be smart and take it the wrong way. I will say anything not thinking about it hurtful or not. When i look back on it I see words are hurtful and some things said are just out of line so for that I do feel remorse.
ReplyDeleteWhen me and my Mother argue i don't feel any remorse. I feel Like i know i am right and i can prove i am right so it is not point in arguing over it. But my mother thinks otherwise she older she that means she always right. sometimes my word hurt her to because i can be Very mean.this is why i state that i should have remorse she is my mother the person that held in her body for 9 months. what i learn form this is that i am a role model now and i should show how my little sister should also treat my mother.
ReplyDeleteThe time I did something and didn't remorse is when I got into an argument with my uncle. The reason I felt no remorse is because after my father died he promised that he would step up in my life but he didn't hold up his end of the bargain. He rarely calls me and never come see me , so on my birthday I told him about his self and now we are no longer talking.
ReplyDeleteThat's unfortunate. Sometimes it's good to tell people how you feel especially if you feel you've been hurt or mistreated. You felt that a promise that was made to you had been broken. But perhaps you should have done less of "telling your uncle off" and more of telling him that it hurt you that he didn't keep a promise to you. Maybe then he would have seen how his decision affected you and he would have made a change. As it stands now, is there a man at all that could even come close to feeling your father's shoes??? Maybe he felt inadequate to do so. You should try to talk to him again, and try to understand what made him not call or come around. Maybe you can get to the bottom of it without attacking each other.
DeleteIt was this one time when i got to fussing with a teacher. It was middle school and we got into a really big disagreement. It was a lot of words said (no cursing) but i got three days of ISS for it. I felt no remorse because i was right in the situation.
ReplyDeleteHow do you feel about the situation now?
DeleteI feel that the situation wouldn't happen if i was never put in the class. . . but me and the teacher are real cool now.
DeleteThe Time When I Sat My Cousin Clothes Out Side When I Did It I Didn't Really Care But After I Thought About It I Felt Remorse.
ReplyDeleteWhen me and my mother got to fussing , because she took my phone for a whole year. So I got mad and I started to feel some type of way, so I wanted to let her know How I really felt so i told her, but once I told her she started cussing me out and making me cry and a lot more things , And I Kept on Talking so she slap me. So till this day I have never apologized to her because I Just Don't know how .. But I do feel remorse for what I did and Said to my mother.
ReplyDeleteI feel bad when I get the fussing and fighting with my younger sisters. But when they really make me mad it seems like I have no control over my attitude. Because I have a really bad attitude and I know some of the things I say really hurt there feelings. I do feel remorse about the things I do and say so whenever I cool down I do apologize about it just because they’re my little sisters and they look up to me.
ReplyDeleteWhen i think of remorse i think of sad and regret for my actions and i feel like i want to go back in time and change it that is what i think of when i think of remorse
DeleteBe specific...What is one thing that you did??
DeleteWhen my parents went on vaction a couple of year back. They left me, my brother, and my sister at home by ourself they was gone bout two or three days. We had a extra car in the yard n i drove it around the yard n stuff. Then one day when i drove it i got busted n wen i drove in the yard an went in the house i told them it want me it was my boo-boo an he woop him first. Then i said to myself that not right tell the truth so i went an told my daddy it was me an i feel very remorse about the situation..
ReplyDeleteWhat I have remorse for was when I got to fighting at school with another student. But I was trying to take up for this student because I hate to see anybody get bullied. Now I regret I got to fighting. Because should have never stuck my mouth in someone else's business.
ReplyDeleteSometime when I was going to daycare. I had broke a little girl's finger. I didn't care that I had broke it. Because I felt that she got what was coming to her. But know that I look back on it I do feel some remorse. Just cause what I did was not the right thing to do. Even if she had scratch my eye.
ReplyDeleteIt was these time i was skipping class and i felt remorse because i missed a lot of work that i needed and i could made better grades then i made and i felt remorse when i got the fighting because i missed and i really wanted the come because school is an important thing and i need to graduate and move on in life.
ReplyDeleteIt was these time i was skipping class and i felt remorse because i missed a lot of work that i needed and i could made better grades then i made and i felt remorse when i got the fighting because i missed and i really wanted the come because school is an important thing and i need to graduate and move on in life.
ReplyDeleteI was when i was home one day playing with a broken broom, I cut my leg and had to get stitches. It hurt and afterwards i felt remorse because i couldn't play outside.
ReplyDeleteI do a lot of things that i look back on and think "why did i do or say that" and i still do that today. But one time i got in to a fight because somebody told me to fight the little boy or he would fight me so i beat him up and now i feel bad about it because i could've said no it isn't right but i didn't.
ReplyDeleteI felt remorse one time because I fussed her out because she kept fussing at me about something I didn't do but at the same time I felt remorse because that's my grandmother and I shouldn't fuss at her
ReplyDeleteI feel remorse about being a thief. Because my whole life i have been stealing, like money , gum , electronic, and etc. But right i feel like i shouldn't be doing that b/c i might end up in jail or worst dead, so i have stop doing that and going to church. B/c that's the right thing to do.
ReplyDeleteI didn't feel remorse when I had an altercation with another student because before we had it I had already warned the people that was around who ever pulled it off was going to get it so she decide to listen to one of our classmates cause they told her to do it and she did it.
ReplyDeleteWhen i used to live with my parents in Virginia,during middle school i got in a fight with a girl that had asmah but the reason why i got in a fight with her was because she talk trash about me and warned her and she didn't care i she went up to her and punched her in the chest,in the face,and at the stomach when i did all that i went my house and felt kind of good but later on i hadad to go to court. but never felt remorse.
ReplyDeleteWhen me and my mother got to fussing because i when somewhere without teller her i fussing back at her but felt sorry afterwards because i was the one wrong and didn't realize it to after the fuss.
ReplyDeleteI had two girlfriends at once, and when I left to school i was walking down the street and saw them fighting for me because they said I was their boyfriend. they said that only one could be my girlfriend. I felt very happy because they were fighting for me. But i never felt bad for going out with two women at once.
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