To pass one's guilt onto another person in order to alleviate your own guilt. Often done when one sees someone is indirectly at fault in someway for your own guilt.
John: I feel bad. I haven't been to my family reunion for almost three years now because I've always been down there visiting you.
Jane: Don't pass this down the conveyor belt of guilt.
Jane: Don't pass this down the conveyor belt of guilt.
by Rasengan2theface September 3, 2012
Get the Conveyor Belt of Guilt mug.When a boss, romantic other, friend or family member does something for you, and you have no other way of paying them back, to simply be charming and fair in other ways to pay your dues for having underappreciated them.
Kat: Jeanne, you took me back as your friend again, but I don't know, I don't know if it's healthy.
Jeanne: Look, I know you're still working off your guilt, but good things happen to people like you!
Jeanne: Look, I know you're still working off your guilt, but good things happen to people like you!
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News stories that get more and more desperate until people submit into doing anything the media/government/healthcare industry/scientists want them to do.
Last week's grief/tragedy/sympathy guilt trip was a recycled story from the Trump era about a young guy that still thought the coronavirus was a hoax until he ended up in ICU. When that didn't increase vaccination rates, the grief/tragedy/sympathy industry got more desperate and had a guy talking emotionally about how you can save his one year old in Arkansas even if you live halfway across the country by getting in line for a vaccine. Just do what these people say and everyone will be okay, just meet their demands is what the grief/tragedy/sympathy industry is trying to prime people's subconcious with.
by The Original Agahnim August 11, 2021
Get the Grief/tragedy/sympathy guilt trip mug.A feeling of feeling guilty because of a dumb reason or for no real cause, or in other words brainless guilt, just like ogers who are usually depicted as dumb and unintelligent
I felt an oger's guilt for not buying my brother a new console after promising him while I was drunk
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by X0x0xo February 24, 2023
Get the Daddy’s Guilt mug.Someone who pays a breeder for a particular type of dog may do so seeking certain characteristics common to that breed, that may not be found taking chances with a shelter dog which often is no less loving, and in need of a home, resulting in feelings of designer dog guilt.
No kill shelter or not, your spent $3,000 on a dog when countless adorable animals in shelters, available for free no less, need a forever home? What's wrong with you?!!! Don't you have any designer dog guilt?
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Get the designer dog guilt mug.The error of condemning an individual or group solely based on their association with or support for another entity deemed objectionable, without examining the nature, degree, or reason for that support. It assumes perfect ideological alignment and ignores the possibility of partial agreement, strategic alliance, nuanced critique, or simply being misinformed. It's a shortcut to moral judgment that prevents dialogue.
Example: "Person A donated to a charity that also, unknowingly, funded a controversial speaker one time. Therefore, Person A is a bad person who supports that speaker's worst ideas." This Fallacy of Guilt by Support bypasses Person A's actual intentions and the complexity of the charity's work to impose a blanket condemnation based on a distant, indirect link.
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