Regret
Overthink
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The Role of Remorse in Moral Commitment
In contemporary English regret gets used in place of or at the very least as a synonym for remorse and oftentimes for repentance too, right? Because according to this taxonomy, what the guy in Magnolia is experiencing is remorse, not regret. And you're absolutely right that remorse and repentance have a clearer link to moral culpability than regret does. But there's this great line from Michelle de Montaigne's essay on repentance where she says: Repentance is reason's response to engaging in vice.
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