Stolen waters are sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. — Proverbs 9:17
Most of us equate guilty pleasures with the “Seven Mortal Sins:” pride, wrath, envy, sloth, lust, gluttony, and avarice. It is a compact and convenient formulation. Sins have been catalogued for our use. We need not involve ourselves with other sins not mentioned. We sin, we feel compunction or guilt, we repent (or not). So runs the usual course of events in the “sinful” world.
But are these sins truly guilty pleasures? Or are some of them pleasures followed by guilt? Suppose we were to define a guilty pleasure essentially as a dual – or divided and simultaneous – state of consciousness: pleasure and remorse in the same instant. Then we would need to [eliminaterule out] most of the Seven Sins. Sloth, anger, pride, and envy would go, because such states completely absorb us either into an engulfing awareness of the state (such as feeling wrathful) or into unconsciousness (although sloth straddles a boundary here, and could be considered a guilty pleasure if it did not consist completely of being unconscious).
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