Using the questions in the Helpful Hints as a guide, rate how serious you think your actions are
on the scales. Since people have dierent values and beliefs about what is right
and wrong, you should rst make the endpoints personal to you. At the 100 mark on the scale at
the top of the worksheet, write the most serious wrong action you could imagine a person doing.
For example, this might be to torture and murder someone. While 0 would not be serious at all,
10 might be something like not returning a small amount of extra change you were overpaid in a
store.
Label a few marks on the scale at the top of so that you see the dierences
among minor, medium, and serious actions that you might feel guilt or shame about. Then think
of the worst thing you have ever done in your life. Assuming that it is less serious than torture and
murder, put that action on the scale where you think it belongs.
Once you have created your personal scale, use it to rate the seriousness of actions that
prompt you to feel guilt or shame.
