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    Challenges→One's conscience is binding upon oneself even when one's conscience is utterly mistaken and directs awful misdeeds.

    If agents are morally required to seek correction of reasonably suspect beliefs, then a merely subjective judgment of conscience is not automatically binding in the manner the claim asserts.

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    Subjective judgment(epistemology/ethics)
    A decision or determination made based on personal opinion, feeling, or perspective rather than objective facts.
    automatically(as used in logic and philosophy)
    Happening without question or without needing any additional conditions; something that just applies by default.
    binding(Binding theory of presupposition)
    The linking of a presuppositional expression (including pronouns) to an already-available discourse referent in the DRS.
    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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    morally required(as used in ethics)
    Something you have a duty or obligation to do because it's the right thing to do, not just because you feel like it.
    reasonably suspect beliefs(as used in epistemology)
    Beliefs you have good reasons to think might be wrong or unreliable, based on evidence or logic.

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