The notion that psychiatric drugs might impair our conscience should not come as a shock. We're all too aware that people do bad things under the influence of alcohol, crack cocaine, and methamphetamine that they wouldn't do otherwise. Is it so hard, then, to comprehend that some legal drugs can also obscure or eliminate our awareness of conscience? After all, what does "feeling better" often involve but the elimination of conflict? And what is conflict but the evidence inside us that we've done something wrong -- something contrary to our conscience? Getting rid of conflict, then, often involves blotting out our conscience!
The problem with that, of course, is that conscience is literally the presence of God in us, the friction between the way we are and the way we should be.
David Kupelian, How Evil Works, p.109-110
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