Another Look at Conscience 159more evident. How is Perceiver strategy supposed to believe in a
connection which only occurs, say, one out of twenty times? The fact is
that, with the right precautions, the girl probably will not get pregnant and
the couple probably will not get a disease.
Suppose that we use emotional pressure or scare tactics in order to try
to convince teenagers into believing that there is a solid connection
between sex and pregnancy or between sex and disease. This is like the
terrorist killing people in order to bring „life‟ to his country. On the one
hand, the goal is to have Perceiver strategy believe in natural law—we
wish to snap Perceiver thought in the teenager out of the hypnosis of
teenage peer pressure and the deathly sleep of childish infatuation. On the
other hand, the method uses emotional pressure to mesmerize Perceiver
thought into 'believing' our particular 'truth'; the message is conveyed by
adults, moreover, who expect a response of passive childish trust from
their teenage listeners. The effort may be valiant and the motive sincere,
but it is very difficult to paint a wall white if all one uses is black paint—
the more one brushes, the darker it gets.
Therefore, if we want to find a proper foundation for natural conscience,
I suggest that we need to discover some source of natural law in which
connections between cause and effect are solid and are not based in
statistics. That way, common sense can prevail.
Have you ever tried to run away from your mind? Rather hard, isn‟t it?
Wherever you go, your mind, its contents, and its feelings always seem to
follow one step behind. No matter what you do, say or even think, you
inevitably suffer some sort of
mental consequence. Maybe the
answer lies here. If principles of
mental cause and effect could be
discovered, then we could build
natural conscience upon a solid
foundation: “Do this and you will
experience this mental result. Think
that and you will encounter that
mental consequence.” Of course,
we could never figure out how the
human mind works.
Or could we?