Good

I'm required to journal for a democratic thought class. Here is a snip of my journal entry for today on the relevance and origin of "good" in a democracy....

Our perception of good is guided by our conscience.

Everyone has a conscience, yet not everyone is good. This is so because some are in tune with their conscience, some have a poisoned conscience, and most are somewhere in between. Those who are in tune with their conscience have reacted to life experiences accordingly and as a result have laid out the foundation of what good is.

Clearly we would have no perception of good if there was no such thing as a poisoned conscience. More than the opposite boundary for those who lie somewhere in between, it is the hell bent end of a measuring stick, since in this world, good and bad co-exist.