A conscience that directs genocide or torture cannot be binding precisely because such directives are objectively disconnected from the human goods conscience is supposed to track.

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Binding (in an ethical sense)(as used in ethics): Morally obligatory or required; something that genuinely should control your actions because it's the right thing to do.
Genocide(as used in ethics and political philosophy): The deliberate, systematic killing of a large group of people based on their nationality, ethnicity, religion, or race with the intent to destroy that entire group.
Human goods(as used in ethics and philosophy): The things that are genuinely good for human beings and help them flourish—like health, knowledge, relationships, and freedom.
conscience(Aquinas' account, distinguishing conscience from any special moral sense or indwelling presence): Not a special power or faculty within a person, but practical intelligence at work — primarily in the form of a stock of judgments about the reasonableness (rightness) or unreasonableness (wrongness) of kinds of action.

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