Conscience
Conscience noun - Motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions.
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Synonyms for Conscience
Value and conscience are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Value" instead a noun "Conscience".
Value
Value noun - The amount of money for which something will find a buyer.
Conscience and value are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Conscience" instead a noun "Value".
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In the episode's sequel, "Descent", Admiral Nechayev is unpleasantly astonished at this, dresses down Picard for placing his conscience at a higher value than the lives of Federation citizens, and gives him a direct order that, if a similar opportunity presents itself, he is to take advantage of it.
Source: Punished for Sympathy - Or is he a mentally-disturbed sociopathic human-weapon whose vast powers have forced a disconnect with his conscience such that he has to forcefully remind himself that a human life has value or he can wipe out half a continent absent-mindedly without the "human life" Power Limiter?
- Interestingly, he's one of the rare few examples of this trope who's self-aware enough of just how shallow his motives run and who has enough of a conscience to actually beat himself up over it in quieter moments (that is, if we take his own account at face value).
Source: Opportunistic Bastard
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