If it is reasonable to obey conscience, then "the rules that Conscience lays down" are either reasonable in and of themselves or they are "the dictates of an arbitrary authority" (Sidgwick, III.13 §2).
Further we recognize that any ordinary reasonable person has a conscience and ought to obey it.
The video "would shock the conscience of any reasonable human being," Judge Velis said in court Tuesday, The Associated Press reported.
But the modern football fan in possession of a conscience and a reasonable knowledge of the horrific statistics about injuries suffered by players comes to resemble a nacho-scarfing version of St. Augustine, who, faced with his own lust, addresses God: "Lord, let me be pure . . . but not yet".
In 1977, three years after state inmates filed a suit claiming their living conditions were unconstitutional, Judge Pettine took an unannounced tour of the prison and then ruled that inmates were living among rats and cockroaches in conditions that would "shock the conscience of any reasonable citizen".
Moreover, (U) requires not simply that one seek the input of others in forming one's conscience, but that one gain their reasonable agreement.
Religion played the central part in motivating the teenage soldiers, and it is reasonable to believe that religion helped salve the consciences of those who ordered these children into battle.
But if the former, then Sidgwick argues that there is no independent moral authority for conscience — a conclusion which Sidgwick thought perfectly reasonable — and Butler is caught in the same justificatory circle that the Stoic arguments for life according to nature were: "it is reasonable to live according to Nature, and it is natural to live according to Reason" (ibid).
"This shocked the conscience of this court, and I dare believe it shocked the conscience of any reasonable person," Judge Glasser said.
"This Court, in conscience, cannot say that the State has proven every element of murder beyond a reasonable doubt, or that the State has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did not act in self-defense," Wilson wrote in his ruling.St. Louis Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson wrote in his ruling.
