Guilt is just a nagging relic of Puritanism, a Victorian antique, a psychosis to be denied. I checked into a Holiday Inn in Dallas a few weeks ago to discover the hotel was hosting a convention of transvestites. The lobby was filled with men dressed in tight skirts and high heels and towering wigs. They were cuddling up with one another and giving each other makeovers. Their consciences were seared, and they denied having anything about which to feel guilty.
Some people deal with guilt by deflecting it.
They blame other people for their failures and faults and shortcoming. They blame their parents or their environments. This techniques goes all the way back to the garden of Eden when Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent. But sooner or later, all these techniques fail, and we find we can't escape the consequences of our own sinfulness and guilt. Guilt is the corrosion of the soul.