Science refers to humans as higher animals and beings even when there are animals stronger than us to the point of causing us harm. Some of us try to justify our superiority with religion that God made us supreme over them and to use them for our survival while some of us attribute our superiority to knowing the difference between right and wrong, decision making. The ability to choose between right and wrong is one of the unique traits we have as human beings, it is not surprising that the concept of right and wrong has been attributed to our religion, social values, culture and ethnicity.
Occasional conflicts arise to dispute if conscience is truly a guide for our actions. Some of us may argue that the concept is nonexistent when we see people engage in cruelty and social vices without remorse while some of us will still insist the concept can't be ignored but can be suppressed in our minds.
What we fail to realise is that whether or not we come terms with it, the conscience is an existent concept that we indulge in. People who seem not to have it are like that because they have been taught, disciplined, orientated and engaged in such act with people telling them it is just the right thing to do. People who seem to be too cautious of their actions are that way because they have grown under guidance, culture and laws that mandate them not to indulge in those acts that we view as cruel and abominable.
The concept of conscience can be the solution to our problems and our undoing. Conscience can save lives when we adopt a new way of seeing right and wrong that will benefit others and clear example of this is accepting that no ethnicity, social class or race is superior to us and we treat everyone with love, kindness & respect, and fight for the rights of the oppressed & underprivileged even with their diversity. Conscience would become our doom when people are coerced, manipulated and made to believe that their actions are right even when it poses a threat to humanity, a clear example is the white supremacy concept some people live on.
