While I believe most people are born with the capacity for being empathetic I will contend that the emotion Guilt is a learned behavior that came about via the process of domestication using a system of reward and punishment.
Furthermore, I think many of us have learned how this feeling of guilt can be exploited to get people to do what you want because they would feel guilty otherwise. In this particular sense, it is mechanical.
The good news, however, is that once we know this we can accept and then transcend it.
What are your thoughts?
The unexamined thought is not worth thinking.
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  Substantial: 49%  
  Spelling & Grammar: 71%  
  Sentiment: Neutral  
  Avg. Grade Level: 10.88  
  Sources: 0  
  Entity Sentiment Detection: part of the evolutionary empthy gene    nbsp   concience    
  Relevant (Beta): 19%  
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  Considerate: 39%  
  Substantial: 39%  
  Spelling & Grammar: 91%  
  Sentiment: Neutral  
  Avg. Grade Level: 11.8  
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  Entity Sentiment Detection: sociopaths    psycopaths      
  Relevant (Beta): 97%  
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  Considerate: 78%  
  Substantial: 98%  
  Spelling & Grammar: 96%  
  Sentiment: Negative  
  Avg. Grade Level: 9  
  Sources: 0  
  Entity Sentiment Detection: child    actual punishment   shame   children  
  Relevant (Beta): 100%  
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Guilt is indeed a learned emotion and is closely related to shame, love is also a learned emotion... As opposed to primary emotions which do not require any kind of knowledge like happiness, sadness, anger, and fear...
  Considerate: 88%  
  Substantial: 66%  
  Spelling & Grammar: 100%  
  Sentiment: Neutral  
  Avg. Grade Level: 12.04  
  Sources: 0  
  Entity Sentiment Detection: primary emotions    kind of knowledge   emotion   Guilt  
  Relevant (Beta): 89%  
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