APPEAL TO CONSCIENCE
OBLIGATION ON EVERY MAN. My conscience must be for me the final court of appeal, aserts “Artifex” writing in the “Manchester Guardian. But there is a real obligation on every man to see that his conscience is an instructed one and to test its dicta by Kant’s maxim, “Act only on such principles as you could will to become universal, laws.” That means that every man should ask himself what would be the result if other people claimed to act as he does himself. But while a man’s conscience is final for him it is not so for anyone else. The conscientious Thug believes that ritual murder in honour of Kali is a virtuous act. I may admit, the man’s sincerity, and even under some circumstances admire him as a good man, but I may and must condemn the act and the belief that led to it.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1941, Page 4
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150APPEAL TO CONSCIENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1941, Page 4
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