Start with the observation

People may disagree about rules, yet betrayal, cruelty, mercy and sacrifice do not feel like neutral chemical events.

Follow the reasoning

  1. Conscience can be ignored or distorted, but the need to justify ourselves shows that its court remains active.
  2. A purely private preference cannot easily explain why we expect justice from people who do not share our interests.
  3. The inward demand for moral meaning belongs among the facts any complete account of the human being must explain.

A passage to hold beside it

“Conscience is conscious human nature.” 1

Read plainly

Conscience is not infallible, but dismissing it is no more reasonable than dismissing sight because eyes can be mistaken.

Try observing this

Notice the difference between regretting a bad outcome and regretting that you acted wrongly.

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