Survivor’s guilt is a thing you can’t easily logic away.
Easily? Perhaps not. Possibly? Yes. See various schools of psychotherapy or counselling that proceed by getting at the objective truth of whatever happened, surfacing the client’s beliefs about it, perhaps unconscious ones, looking at them as beliefs, and deciding their truth or falsity.
But your expression “logic away” suggests to me that you are imagining straw Vulcans. The methods I just sketched always involve a lot of emotion, a lot of thinking, and a lot of attention to reality. These three things are no more separate than arms, legs, and torso. They must work harmoniously together, none subordinate to another.
Easily? Perhaps not. Possibly? Yes. See various schools of psychotherapy or counselling that proceed by getting at the objective truth of whatever happened, surfacing the client’s beliefs about it, perhaps unconscious ones, looking at them as beliefs, and deciding their truth or falsity.
But your expression “logic away” suggests to me that you are imagining straw Vulcans. The methods I just sketched always involve a lot of emotion, a lot of thinking, and a lot of attention to reality. These three things are no more separate than arms, legs, and torso. They must work harmoniously together, none subordinate to another.