Where is the Conscience ?

Conscience plays a great role in the acceptance or refusal of our beliefs and convictions. While our consciousness is working as a meticulous spectator of our psychological tendencies, feelings, and behavior; our conscience works as a judge and confers its moralistic influential effects. Nowadays the world is overwhelmed by a lot of brutal and merciless deeds done by human hands. Humans are behaving aggressively due to diverse reasons, and they are repressing the liberated sound of their innocent conscience.

There are many explicit reasons that urge the human being to be malicious. Innately, the person is selfish. He only thinks how he could sense himself and do what enhances his own life. Psychologists declare that any conduct done by anyone is merely a tool to benefit himself even if this behavior is ideal or benevolent. Moreover, the human mind in general is greedy for riches. In which, a person is always eager for more acquisitions and ascendancy. Otherwise, each one comprises a mind and a passion. So the person tends to retaliate when he is harmed since the dawn of history, wars used to pervade the human life. Everyday, we see those vicious massacres. Life has become a field of clashing forces and a long river of scarlet blood.

People have forgotten completely their conscience. Philosophers regard conscience as a direct capacity of knowing good from evil. It is the will which drives toward doing the good and shunning the mischivious. If we just recognize all men's doings, we infer that it is void of all the means of humanity and justice. Look at the daily massacres in Palestine done by Israeli. Most of the victims are civilians involving very small children. Also who could ignore the excessive murders occurring all over the world. Assassinations and theft are the most pervasive phenomena. Most of the countries are spending a very large amount of their annual intake on weapons that are the most rapid way to terminate lives and infringe on human rights and principles.

Every person should protest, and let the world hear his voice that challenges to retrieve something missing totally, the conscience, that could be the darting point for peace and better life.

Hussein Ali Hajj Mohamad

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