Self flagellation serves it's purpose

Do cutters suffer from more guilt over little things? I wonder if they could test that theory. What they did test was does pain relieve guilty feelings. And apparently the answer is yes.


"According to the scientists, although we think of pain as purely physical in nature, in fact we imbue the unpleasant sensation with meaning. Humans have been socialized over ages to think of pain in terms of justice. We equate it with punishment, and as the experimental results suggest, the experience has the psychological effect of rebalancing the scales of justice -- and therefore resolving guilt."

Kind of like self-flagellation that was so popular in the middle ages and beyond, where people whipped themselves or things like that to atone for their sins. Perhaps we cutters are just trying to deal with guilty feelings? I wonder if there are more cutters in Judeo-Christian religions? I mean, hell, they're based on a strong sense of guilt. It would be interesting to know.