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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Moral reasoning(implied in the statement's discussion of how moral judgments work): The process of thinking through whether an action is right or wrong by considering different reasons and circumstances.
Rationalized pathology(as used in philosophy of mind and ethics): A psychological illness or disorder that a person tries to justify or explain away as if it were actually a reasonable choice or belief.
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.
evaluative standard(as something each work generates for itself): A set of criteria or rules used to judge whether something is good, bad, successful, or unsuccessful.

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