Conscience

A true conscience begins when one's fear,
Or one's hope, does not selfishly steer
Your decisions and acts:
When behavior's drive lacks
Such brute guides, then your spirit's sincere.

"True conscience only begins where the fear of punishment, or the hoping and longing for reward, is no longer a determinant or the reason on which you built your decision to behave morally." Viktor Frankl, -- On Reductionism (interview, San Francisco, 1984)