Conscience is something that develops within consciousness through trial and error—through lived contact. It is ethical knowing that forms naturally.
What usually happens is not the natural.
One’s own conscience is more often overridden, replaced by society’s imposed morality, which is adopted unquestioningly as one’s own.
That’s the schism.
It is accepted without discernment—because it hasn’t yet been developed—before one has the opportunity to form their own conscience.
Now there are two opposing forces within, pulling in
opposite directions.
One is processed through the self; the other bypasses the self entirely.
Conscience developed through lived experience is categorically different from morality handed down as a package.
