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    It is not the case that One's conscience is binding upon oneself even when one's conscience is utterly mistaken and directs awful misdeeds.

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    • 1.An erroneous conscience formed through culpable ignorance or willful self-deception does not generate genuine moral obligation but only apparent obligation.
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    • 2.Aquinas himself distinguishes vincible from invincible ignorance, holding that vincibly ignorant agents bear responsibility for correcting their false beliefs before acting.
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    • 3.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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    • 1.Bernard Williams and externalist critics argue that moral obligations must be grounded in reasons that are accessible from an agent-neutral standpoint, not merely in the agent's own sincere deliberative commitments.
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    • 2.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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    • 3.The claim collapses the normative authority of conscience into mere psychological compulsion, eliminating the evaluative standard that distinguishes genuine moral reasoning from rationalized pathology.
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    • 1.Conscience consists of judgments about the reasonableness or unreasonableness of kinds of action.
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    • 2.It is logically impossible for a person to be aware that their present judgment of conscience is mistaken.
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    • 3.Setting oneself against one's own firm judgment of conscience is setting oneself against the goods of truth and reasonableness.
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