| Conscience: Nature or nurture? (The issues of 'good' and 'bad'.)
Is conscience an inherent animal instinct or a cultivated quality, unique to sentient beings?
A related issue is human consciousness without conscience (refer 'egosyntonic' - a symptom of nazism, for example).
An exemplary definition for 'good', for example, is:
'that which benefits the most number of persons for the longest period of time'.
A definition for 'bad', is:
'that which causes undue harm to a person or people.'
These - conscience related, 'good & bad' - issues are wide spectrum subjects with various focal points.
May this discussion include the related panoramic - as well as the pinpointed - considerations.
What are the differences, similiarities and relationships involving values of 'good', 'bad', and 'conscience' (the facility of knowing 'right' from 'wrong')
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(George Berkeley, 1710) ... lay the beginning in a distinct explication of what is meant by thing, reality, existence: for in vain shall we dispute concerning the real existence of things, or pretend to any knowledge thereof, so long as we have not fixed the meaning of those words.
"All things come out of the one and the one out of all things." - Heraclitus
"Reality is an illusion - albeit a persistent one." - Einstein
"Particles give me a headache." - Ibid
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