By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.
Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.
Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.
Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.
And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.
If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.