Admonission of Guilt

"It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty. Jekyll was no worse; he woke again to his good qualities seemingly unimpaired; he would even make haste, where it was possible, to undo the evil done by Hyde. And thus his conscience slumbered" (60). I quote this passage because I feel that there is something very real about Jekyll's feelings. Most of us do not have another side to us that is completely ourselves, yet not. However, even though Jekyll is completely aware of what he does as Hyde, his conscience does not register Hyde's acts as his own, nor the guilt as his. Sometimes I feel that this is true for organizations and people at large. Are there not times when an organization gets someone else to start something, or do something, and it goes awry, yet even though the organization started and endorsed the monster, they detach themselves from the blame and guilt. They overlook it because they are benefitting without consequence, and in their eyes they are doing no wrong. But when the monster they start up goes too far, only then does the conscience begin to activate, and said organization/person begins to realize how much they've overlooked and allowed to happen. Only then do they fear what they've created. Part of me thinks to the Bourne movies as an example. They had no problem doing what they did even though it was wrong and because they didn't think it was too wrong. But when things went too far, when they lost control, the panic began to set in and attention was drawn fully to their case. Such are my general thoughts.