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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: one_less who wrote (64844)10/30/2002 11:02:48 AM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Conscience:

1. a.The awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one's conduct together with the urge to prefer right over wrong: Let your conscience be your guide.
b.A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement: a document that serves as the nation's conscience.
c.Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct: a person of unflagging conscience.
2.The part of the superego in psychoanalysis that judges the ethical nature of one's actions and thoughts and then transmits such determinations to the ego for consideration.
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The problem with 1.a., is who defines what is right? For a suicide bomber, suicide bombing is right. There is certainly a moral and ethical compoment to what they are doing. Very different from ours, but that doesn't make it not there.

1.c., again it is to one's OWN sense of right conduct. Even if that sense of right conduct leads you to shoot random people from the back of a car. To me, that is terribly, terribly wrong. My conscience would never allow me to do it. But conscience is internal, and some people may find that such conduct is, by their lights, right.

By this definition, it is perfectly reasonable to argue that conscience is at the core of fanaticism. In fact, if you accept definition 1.c, it is pretty much inevitable to argue that way.
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