Justice of the Conscience

Justice of the Conscience

Every deed has a cause and a result. It is the result that determines whether a deed was good or not. Especially results that affect others. Mankind has developed, over the millennia, systems that determine whether ones deeds are correct or not. We have created laws that are meant to prevent deeds that cause harm to others. To instil adherence and fear, we divided deeds into two, as good and bad and added these to religious texts and scriptures. We organized courts of law that punished all those who did bad deeds and started policing the society itself. All with the purpose of creating a fear over bad deeds.
Yet there is an oft forgotten, inbuilt tool, designed by nature. Do you remember the first time you stole the coin from your mom’s purse? Or the time you lied about having done something that you ought to have done, but did not. I do. Even as you do it there is the feeling of being watched by someone else. Someone other than the people around. This prevents most people from repeating the same deed ever again. This then is conscience. The person within you whom nature had entrusted your life and your character too.
So why then are deeds of theft, violence and cheating on the increase. How does a new generation slip so easily into bad habits and misdeeds? Were they born without a conscience? The fact is, they are taught early in their lives through media, social media even the examples set to them by their parents. The problem with conscience is that it loses its potency over time.
It may be worth remembering that with time, we will create a generation without conscience. Because the greatest judicial system is right within us – Conscience.