Wednesday, February 10, 2016

There’s no such thing as conscience

1618: 

When it comes to the maltreatment of animals, our conscience should weigh heavily on all of us - how could it not? It worries many of us that we can be so cruel to animals. Perhaps our callous disposition is nothing more than our conscience struggling with detachment. The guilty look on our faces is something we may not notice about ourselves, but we notice it in others.

Science has no proof of the existence of conscience! Fancy that! Many scientists (as well as non-scientists) believe that ‘matters of conscience’ are secondary to the interests of human advancement. The white-coat brigade wield enormous influence, their knowledge of how things work outweighs both emotion and conscience. And until recently the scientist was regarded as the new god. But the scales have fallen from our eyes today and people are now veering towards 'greener' people, who use an intuition that relies on the wisdom of conscience.


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