Shadow Of Apes

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“Conscience doth make cowards of us all”- W. Shakespeare

As far as I can tell, conscience is a relatively new feature of life on earth. I am not sure that everything serves a purpose, as such, but it seems fairly clear to me that conscience serves as some sort of instinctive restraint upon beings which have the capacity to do great harm. There seems to be a very practical wisdom to endowing human…