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Originally Posted by giantone
What is a conscience? What is it made of? What makes a conscience weak or strong? Any scriptures or thoughts?
I was thinking about how some people can look or act a certain way and then act another way when it benefits them, I was thinking do these people have a conscience, and what about the head hunters or people who sacrifice there children to false gods by fire or give there children to the world without a fight. The head hunters may believe it is a good thing to chop people's heads off and eat their brains, and believe that they are sinful if they don't.
My life experiences show me that people who ignore what is right lose an essence of who they once were, I was thinking is a conscience part of that essence, and can that essence be changed, can a head hunter learn not to love to hunt heads?
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Greetings Giantone,
A "conscience" is the ingrained Governor of our thoughts and actions which adversely effects our will. I would argue that a "conscience" cannot be strong nor weak. When you reference "strong" and "weak" you are referring to the "will". The "will" can be either strong or weak, but the conscience does not have a sliding scale whatsoever. The complexity of the conscience remains with how our will transcribes or interprets what's REALLY good or evil. Our "conscience" reveals to us the intrinsic morality of man, and provides us with the ability to discern between right and wrong. The intellect and the "will" determine how we
view our conscience, and helps us establish how we are to act (will) out our interpretation of our conscience. This is why people like the 'Una-bomber' or someone like 'Timothy McVeigh' can justify or rationalize their behavior. They interpret what they deem to be correct, by interpreting their conscience through a distorted/corrupt intellect which can be cause by psychosis, or other numerous mental illnesses. Everyone forms ideologies that they assume to be "right" or "correct". However, if what's "right" or "correct" is taken from a false or erroneous mentality, the manifestations of the will can, and will be disastrous.