Are you more averse to guilt or shame?

Both pretty strongly though I think principle wins out by far. Nothing gets to me more than making a mistake at the expense of someone else. I can swallow my pride, but guilt will twist my stomach in knots and makes me feel physically sick.

id say so, but as iv grown up my morals have become more skewed and i can talk myself into doing some bad, selfish things, as i am human. i can do some shitty things, but saying the lords name in vain makes me anxious and i have to ask for forgiveness when i do xD good old irish catholic guilt~

Yeah, I have a lot of guilt. It mostly stems from being a Christian, or just being really nervous while talking to people. If I feel that I have offended someone, or have made them sad I will immediately apologize. I also constantly ask if people are alright, or if they are comfortable around me because I feel like I am a burden to be around quite a bit. Lmao. Being a Christian, if I don't pray or feel like I am not talking to God enough I feel pretty bad, so. Meh.

I'd say it's a mix of both. I have pride when it comes to sticking to certain principles. But if it does come down to it, probably my principles. I would feel pretty guilty if I broke one of my principles, and that is usually added on top of what else might come out of it. My stubbornness also plays a role as well, people mistake that as pride sometimes.

I hate the feeling of guilt. It really is a punch in the gut to me when I know I screwed up on something and I compromised my principles. While shame can play a part and make me feel even more guilty I feel like there is no reason to try and save face and salvage my pride when I know what I did is wrong. It is better off accepting the consequences and take something away from it.

This is a tough question. We hold our individual beliefs or principles dear to our selves and our pride keeps those principles in check. But we don't live in a world of individualism. people around the world are pushing for the Star Trek Utopia. "The needs of the many out way the needs of the one" Sounds corny but its true. Compromise is where your pride and principles get torn up, stomped on and as easily erased as words on a chalkboard. The good thing is it is not always bad! It's growing up and evolving into the person you hope to be and the life you want to lead. who hasn't ever compromised? Either in a relationship,work or daily life. If you say you never compromise you are lying to yourself. Compromise continuously but on occasion abruptly eats away at your principles and your pride has to pick up the pieces. Both are always changing together. One is not more important than the other. It shapes who you are and what kind of person you want to be. The expression "I stick to my principles" is a lie. That is your Pride coming to rescue you from change.

I don't understand the question. Pride is about the value you place on yourself, and principle is about the value you place on your actions. That's how I've understood it. Both are good things to have, but too much of either is a cause for isolation. Too much pride means you're the only one that matters. Too much principle means blindly adhering to tradition on the basis of what you think is the moral good, which most people aren't going to agree with. If I were to prefer one, it'd be principle. At the end of the day what someone feels isn't going to impact me nearly as much as what someone does.