Conscience and Guilt

Conscience

Conscience noun - Motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions.

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Guilt and conscience are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Guilt" instead a noun "Conscience".

Guilt noun - A feeling of responsibility for wrongdoing.

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Conscience and guilt are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Conscience" instead a noun "Guilt".

emotional	emotional conscience	emotional guilt
human	human conscience	human guilt
full	full conscience	full guilt
natural	natural conscience	natural guilt
Other adjectives: free, deep, actual, constant, collective, misplaced, bad, inner, moral, apparent, repressed.

The experiment was to create a super soldier who could turn off his conscience and guilt whenever he was needed to, but Leo resisted, and secretly spent the entirety of the game trying to take over Daniel's body.

Source: Tomato Surprise
The copy, however, had a conscience (among other differences), and was haunted by guilt over this.

Source: Moral Event Horizon / Comic Books
It's never outright stated but heavily implied that YOU are Rimanah, and the whole game is a construct of your conscience to deal with the guilt of putting your wife to death by torture.

Source: I Am Who?

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