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== Evidence for Foreknowledge of Right and Wrong ==
 
== Evidence for Foreknowledge of Right and Wrong ==
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That any human being might be expected to know ahead of time what is right and what is wrong, might seem incredible to any casual observer of human society. And yet the following points favor the notion of instinctual foreknowledge of violations of conscience:
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That any human being might be expected to know ahead of time what is right and what is wrong might seem incredible to any casual observer of human society;  and, yet, the following points favor the notion of instinctual foreknowledge of violations of conscience:
 
*Any government promulgating a frankly murderous or otherwise oppressive policy toward any subset of its subjects must actively persuade its remaining subjects, usually through ''[[propaganda]]'', that such a policy is morally acceptable. The obvious example is [[Germany]] during the [[Second World War]]. In fact, many other examples, historical and modern, illustrate this point.
 
*Any government promulgating a frankly murderous or otherwise oppressive policy toward any subset of its subjects must actively persuade its remaining subjects, usually through ''[[propaganda]]'', that such a policy is morally acceptable. The obvious example is [[Germany]] during the [[Second World War]]. In fact, many other examples, historical and modern, illustrate this point.
 
*No organized society has ever explicitly endorsed theft as a legitimate business practice.
 
*No organized society has ever explicitly endorsed theft as a legitimate business practice.
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