[peacegirl]

Originally Posted by LadyShea

Until you have some evidence or sound reasoning, you are just making faith statements, peacegirl. You cannot support a single statement you just made.

It is absolutely an unsupported assertion that conscience functions the same and manifests the same in all people. You have never offered anything to back that up. Have you even tried looking into the neuroscience and experimental psychology literature to see if Lessans claims are in line with what science is finding every day? If you want his "discovery" taken seriously by professionals ie: scientists and academics and philosophers, you need to come up with something more than "wrong".

Do you think a Harvard professor like Joshua Greene, whose life work is devoted to questions of morality and conscience, is just going to agree that "Conscience works the way Lessans said it does"? Forget about me for a minute, how would you respond to him should he ask you to support that claim? How do you plan to converse with experts? Are you going to tell them "Wrong!"

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I will tell them to study his observations. He very carefully explains why we need to be able to justify what we do in order to hurt someone. If they want to test this, they can. They may not be able to test this on someone whose conscience has already been severed or disabled, but that does not negate the truth of his observation.