  The natural question asks if conscience is a reflection of universal reality or social conditioning. Consider a universal reality first. Is the attraction to justice an attraction to a universal reality experienced as soul knowledge or strictly a societal value?  I think this is a faulty question. ‘Conscience' is neither a black or white concept. The age old question of "nature or nurture" is now seen by most biologists as a roughshod delineation of convenience NOT a black and white reality.  I begin with the premise of the Great Chain of Being. It connects conscious no-thing with every-thing or fraction of the whole coming into creation at a given level of being. The closer a given fraction of the whole is to the Absolute, the greater its objective value as compared to value being an expression of societal standards. From this perspective objective conscience is what allows us to experience objective value. I'll post a link to the Great Chain of Being so you know it isn't an original idea  