So sport reminds us all there can be no collective tide of justice without the groundswell of individual conscience; that there is nothing inevitable about progress.
They correctly assert two basic truths: that religious people and institutions have rights to act according to the dictates of conscience and that there are limits on the government's right to interfere with those rights.
"I have no issue with funding being tied to curriculum per se but there has to be enough room within curriculum to make sure that people aren't forced to act against their conscience and that there's a preservation of religious liberty," he said.
Richards' son, also called Dave, insisted his conscience was totally clear and that there were no vested interests.
Yet the power of Islam shows us that for many human beings, experience seems to teach that conscience is not irrational, and that there are certain things – dishonesty, greed, cruelty, withholding bread from the hungry – which are not merely imprudent, but wrong, and certain things which are self-evidently and self-definedly good.
"The United States attorney cannot, in good conscience, conclude at this time that there is a reasonable possibility that a federal crime has been committed which would be the proper subject of a federal grand jury investigation," Mr. Suthers said in a statement.
I'm having difficulty seeing how a Democrat who voted for Obama (whom I supported) for the right reasons in 2008 can in good conscience do so again given that there is another candidate who has been consistent in his opposition to all of these things -- not just in words but in deeds.
And there is no shame, it seems to me, in following your conscience out the door, especially now that there are vibrant alternative Catholic parishes – Catholic, but not Roman Catholic.
However, at least with him, one gets the impression that there's a conscience rattling around in there, the sense of someone on a true comedy kamikaze mission, always primed to go down in flames.
Why make all this effort to dismiss the death of an unknown peasant girl if it weren't that the C.O. recognized that there were forces of conscience that might have to be contended with?
