Affliction

The moral conscience that so many thoughtless people have offended against and many more have rejected is something that exists and has always existed; it was not the invention of the philosophers, when the soul was little more than a muddled proposition. With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic revolution, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of blood and in the salt of tears, and we made our eyes into a mirror turned inwards with the result that they often show without reserve what we were verbally trying to deny.

Add to this general observation, the particular circumstance that in simple spirits, the remorse caused by comitting an evil act often becomes confused with ancestral fears of every kind, and the result will be that the punishment of the previcator ends up being, without mercy or pity, without shame or infliction, either twice or half what he deserves.