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Conscience is just thinly veiled self-interest.... Take cannibalism for instance... You don't want to go around eating people or you might give them the idea to eat you....

Lizard_of_Ahaz 9 Apr 13
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Guilt is a knee-jerk fear that you will be punished. Fear is brought on by irrational and untrue thoughts.

It is in our self-interest to think true thoughts only, and our actions should be guided by the light of awareness.

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I've heard Adam and Eve's awareness of their nakedness was the awareness of vulnerability and how they could be hurt. When humans understood how they could be hurt, they also understood how to hurt others.

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