It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.
The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
I believe you have to nurture your conscience.
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.