03-13-2012, 12:42 AM
I think the issue here is assuming that there is a standard of conscience. Plenty of people have done terrible things while fully believing they are serving the greater good. What I believe to be morally acceptable could differ vastly from your own moral code, and who is going to step in and say which is right? The negative perspective seems to be "This is for your own good, in the long run. When you understand, you will thank me for doing this to you." I think that those who succeed in graduating into the negative polarity do so with a completely clean conscience in the vast majority of cases.