Once the living entity has come over his shame & guilt consciousness he/she climbs up the ladder and reaches apathy.

Apathy/indifference/callousness/lethargy/boredom these are actually defense mechanisms of genuinely guilty people. It is a denial mode they resort to after living a masochistic lizard like existence for long. It is the climax that comes after wallowing in self sympathy endlessly. It comes, after the pain of mental torture for sins once committed becomes unbearable.

The native tries to reason albeit unsuccessfully that the tormented is as much to blame as the tormentor himself/herself.

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