In Response to Courtney's blog

"My question, in short, is...do we greatly rely on our conscience and, if we did not have them then would that make us evil?"

I think (disorders aside) that everyone does in fact have a conscience. So in my opinion that automatically answers the second question by default. Whether or not people decide to use their conscience is a different story. Conscience is just that little voice inside us all that pops up when we feel unsure about something or maybe guilty about something. So do we rely on our conscience? I think we rely on it if we are put in the situation in which it shows up and we believe what it says to be the right thing. That being said, is our conscience always trying to tell us the "right thing?" What if it was telling us the wrong thing and we relied on it? Would the situation turn out badly? It's hard to tell if conscience is good or bad really. And because it's not always there (it only comes when we think we are doing something wrong) we associate it with being a good thing. But it's only an inner voice of ourselves who are doing the wrong thing so how can we be sure the conscience is right?

So going off Courtney's question, Should we listen to our consciences all the time?