Conscience and Necessity

Conscience

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

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

Necessity noun - Something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable.

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Conscience and necessity are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Conscience" instead a noun "Necessity".

emotional	emotional conscience	emotional necessity
human	human conscience	human necessity
good	good conscience	good necessity
best	best conscience	best necessity
Other adjectives: powerful, actual, constant, bad, social, new, political, apparent.

The kind of action that springs from absolute necessity, unclouded by the restraints of conscience, mercy, pity.

Source: Would You Like to Hear How They Died?
In Timewyrm: Revelation Five represented the Doctor's conscience in his mental world, and Seven sealed him away out of what he thought to be necessity, until Ace freed him, reintegrating him into the Doctor's mind.

Source: I Hate Past Me

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