United States to the poorest beggar in New York City has told a lie. White

lies, gray lies, and plain old dirty fat lies are strewn forth every day like

water from a fountain. The only true difference between them is the amount

of guilt they place on the liar. If they feel guilt, then they suffer greatly

throughout their lives, from lots of small indiscretions or just once large

one. The majority of the people in this world have the ability to alleviate

their guilt through some kind of penance, but for some that is not enough.

Anything they do can not repeal the feeling of guilt and the knowledge they

did something wrong. People like this make themselves sick with worry

and regret, and they often die of their disease: depression. Those people

who do manage to drop their guilt become productive members of society

again because they have reconnected with the rest of the human race. They

don't deny their guilt or their crimes, they just acknowledge there are some

things they cannot change, they can just try to make up for them. In The

Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne the decision of the characters to

on honesty and the fate of those who did not come clean with God. The

drug users were all admitted junkies. Dimmsdale wasn't, and that just made

her sin, eventually were won over by her vast charity work. They begin to

him a gigantic hypocrite. Instead Dimmsdale spent seven long years with a

principle of Puritanism (maybe both). Truly, (no pun intended) Dimmdale's

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