SYCOPHANCY
Humans have a natural inclination to exhibit attitudes that they think will favour them and advance their agenda even if it means trampling on the rights and freedom of others. They can steal, kill, embezzle, cheat, get into other corrupt practices and engage in criminal activities just to make sure their selfish desires are gratified.
Nevertheless, there is the voice of the conscience in every man. Some will argue that most persons especially politicians, armed robbers, kidnappers etc. have dead consciences. Well, since you said dead conscience, it means it was alive at a point. It was killed or died because of some practices that were consistent over a period of time.
One of those practices is surrounding yourself with sycophants, listening and making decisions based on their suggestions. You are doing well, they will clap for you and sing your praise. When you are doing badly, they try to give you reasons why you shouldn't get perturbed and even when other people are complaining about your lifestyle, they keep telling you not to take them seriously that they don't just like you because you are better than them.
They feed you with these lies and won't allow you see the need to break wrong foundations and build new and better ones. They rationalize all your errors and make you allow evil giving excuses why you shouldn't be blamed. Run away from them; be careful of sycophants! They are in work places, churches, government houses, homes and everywhere. Their god is their belly and they don't care who gets hurt, they just want their selfish needs to be met.
I'm Jay Sun and I believe sycophants should be kept at the gate not where decisions are made.