Conscience

 

Dennis Prager the wise worries that conscience in most people is not that strong, and that people do wicked acts repeatedly, and sleep quite well at night.

 

I cannot much disagree with that. My thought is that most people follow an altruist-collective moral code, and that is a code that favors lying, emotionalism and extremism, so as people lie to themselves and do evil, even where it does not square with their existent morality, it is very easy to rationalize contradicting one’s moral code, without feeling bad about it, let alone ceasing to sin.

 

If we want people to have strong, better consciences that they keep tough and unrepressed, so that it can steer the self away from how not to act and nudge them to accept and live by how to act, we would do better to raise up a generation of youngsters steeped and trained in egoist-individualist morality. Under that morality, people are much less inclined to lie to themselves about their own misbehavior. They are more logical, rational, and temperate with the self, so telling the self-tough truths is much more easily introduced by others or by the self to the self, in the case of an individualist versus a truth-evasive groupist.

 

Once an individuator has internalized his conscience, or set of values, he cannot lie to himself, so he must act in ways that make his conscience get off his back. The individuator loves himself because he esteems himself, so he is proud where justified, and is self-critical and honest with himself where he falls short, and that could be a type of humility.

 

He cannot live with himself if his behavior falls short of his value system, too deeply or too often, so his conscience will be alive, well and operating. It is my contention that the typical individuator, proud but truthful, would have a strong conscience, and could not sin much, and still live with himself, so this fact usually forces him to behave so his guilty does not turn guilty and thus consumes him.  His conscience, which is an extension of his spiritually and morally good will, will disallow him from misbehaving for long, without an inner, uneasy assessment and behavior realignment so the self-acts consistently with what one preaches.

 

The nonindiviudaor lives a web of coherent and sometimes contradictory lies and fantasies, so his social existence inside an overwhelming world of falsehoods, fantasies, and justificatory dreams, makes it easy to him be socially swayed and corrupted, and this inevitably dulls his conscience, even murdering it in some cases. He is so deteriorated and far gone, that he is now able to say most anything to and about himself and then come to believe anything about himself, absolutely everything which covers his sins. He is too humble, so paradoxically he is too vain, and then his conscience is suppressed ad atrophies, as it must.

 

The contemporary, narcissistic egotists that moralists and psychologists denounce as being and often are morbidly self-conscious, but they are also morbidly group-conscious as much per capita and maybe more They can do evil and the group will run cover for its popular insiders and vice will be called virtue to be proud of and virtue will be called vice to be embarrassed of and ashamed about. The good are to be persecuted for their non-conformity to community standards. Group-living and group morality effectively dulls people’s consciences and limits their free-willing.

 

Whether a person serves God or Satan, and one always serves one or the other, to be contemptuous and rebellious toward either is imprudent and suicidal.

 

Most individualists are proud but realistic, so they will come around to recognizing, accepting their enjoyable sinning as a negative state of being that they are living, and that is irrefutable and factual. Most of them eventually will take corrective actions.

 

Also, in terms of their self-regarding, if they are too proud or not proud enough, they will adjust their thought and words. If they are too self-effacing, they will lighten up on themselves.