The first axis: human/Part two: Conscience

Certainly! Here’s the revised version of your text in English with the improvements I mentioned earlier:

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Let’s begin by imagining a young boy walking through a forest near a valley, collecting some branches to start a fire, perhaps for cooking or warmth. Unfortunately, I didn’t ask him about his reason for gathering the branches. Then, the boy noticed some beautiful pebbles in the shape of stones, so he picked them up. Once he was done, he began his journey back. On his way, he spotted three birds perched on a bush, and he threw the pebbles he had collected at them. Naturally, he missed the birds, as they were too fast. As you can tell from my description, a question popped into my mind: Why did you do that, young boy? Many answers rushed through my mind, but which one was correct?

Then, another boy came along, experiencing everything the first boy did, except for throwing pebbles at the birds. He simply took the pebbles with him as decoration or perhaps to show off to his friends. As for me, I had two questions: Why didn’t he throw the pebbles at the birds? Did he not see them? Was his mind elsewhere? Or was he perhaps protecting the pebbles? Or was he in a hurry to avoid being scolded by his parents? The answer soon formed in my mind, and I went to ask him. He replied: "This is how I was raised, and even if they hadn’t raised me this way, I still wouldn’t have done that." This seemed like an easy answer to understand, but if you reflect on it long enough, you will surely grasp what is called conscience, which is born with us, ages with us, and dies with us, or even before us, changing as we do. Let me summarize it: your mother whispers in your ear, "Don’t throw the pebbles at the birds, or else..." The important thing is that you are sure of this.

When I saw the boy with conscience and the first boy throwing at the birds, one of them managed to knock down three birds with one throw. You should have seen it, but neither of the fools realized that they were just chicks, barely able to fly. They then argued over whose throw had hit them.

The important point is that conscience acts as a mechanism for applying principles and re-evaluating external rewards and consequences (like your angry mother) and internal ones (such as feeling ashamed) and their effects on a particular action. To elaborate further, conscience can be considered a psychological mechanism that helps evaluate human behaviors based on the moral principles acquired through upbringing, culture, and adopted values. It determines the social and psychological consequences and rewards of behaviors, whether internal (like guilt) or external (such as anger from others). Thus, conscience helps guide a person to make decisions that align with the ethical values they’ve learned or embraced.

So, why does a person have this conscience? Science will not be able to answer this question, and even if it does, its answer will never be complete. Conscience is a signature from the creator of this universe, confirming that we should not act on our desires like other creatures, and that there are consequences, and thus, rewards. But what will those be? Science cannot answer that question. Perhaps religion will.

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