Talk:Remorse

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ph4zr-

To me this page feels like it's all over the place in some areas. The marketing section needs work, if it even belongs besides a reference to "buyer's remorse," which needs work itself. "Compunctulation" does not belong in the Studies section at all. If it is desirable to keep it, I recommend moving it into the introduction--it's really just a bit of trivia about definitions and related concepts.

The article does not cite ANY sources.

As for the tags-

• Tone: There is something about the marketing section that bugs me, but I can't quite pin it down. It reads differently from most articles I come across--that might just be me, though. If others disagree then that's fine.
• Unreferenced: This should be obvious. There are no sources cited in the article, and none of the references are listed.
• Cleanup: Cleanup is cleanup. I'm not a writer, but the studies section reads somewhat awkwardly IMO. I would try and modify it myself, but my writing style isn't well suited to writing articles.

-ph4zr

older discussion

its a greatintroduction but this page needs to be expanded. Here we've got the legal version of remorse but the great religions have a good deal to with the meaning of remorse, an interesting issue to be addressed.

i.m.h.o. "remorse" and "compunction" refer to different feelings, I might be wrong.

The Merriam-Webster says that "remorse" is "a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : SELF-REPROACH".

and it offers the word's etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French remors, from Medieval Latin remorsus, from Late Latin, act of biting again, from Latin remordEre to bite again, from re- + mordEre to bite, "to bite again".

As for "compunction", the Merriam-Webster says that it anxiety arising from awareness of guilt <compunctions of conscience> b : distress of mind over an anticipated action or result <showed no compunction in planning devilish engines of...destruction -- Havelock Ellis> and this is its etymology: Middle English compunccioun, from Anglo-French compunction, from Late Latin compunction-, compunctio, from Latin compungere to prick hard, sting, from com- + pungere to prick, "to prick hard"

It would be good to see this expanded. Verblyud 12:59, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Fear and remorse

"In general, a person needs to be unable to feel fear, as well as remorse in order to develop psychopathic traits."

Interesting. Fear involves anticipating the future. Remorse involves pondering the past. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Paul Murray (talk • contribs) 02:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC).