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Moral Pain - (4021)

When the high image we have of a person is broken by their actions, we suffer moral pain. The respect, the trust, the admiration that we had for the person breaks and feeling such beautiful values in us break is what hurts. The heart hurts. 


We may have done that to others. Sometimes we do something that really warrants that and we are responsible and other times we are not so responsible as it was certain concepts that they built up that were broken. We didn't build those concepts for them, but in some way we acted to help build them, so we are in a way responsible but not fully. 


Bringing under questioning, bending, stretching, breaking etc. the highest values in a person is what always causes moral pain. Loyalty, trust, love...


The values of loyalty, trust, love are the highest values. If we look at what Dante tells us in his book the Inferno we see that the worst crime in the world is treason and so by the law of opposites, the highest value is loyalty.


One thing we shouldn't ever do, and it is so typical, so common. When we feel moral pain we like to make the one that made us feel that pain suffer the same. We try to exact on them impressions that make them feel the same pain. If we cried, we make them cry, hitting deeply their dearest and deepest feelings. 


End (4021).

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