About the guy in Times Square. Did it occur to you that instead of being mentally ill, as you suggest, he might be cognitively impaired? There is a difference, you know.

And a conscience would be the opposite of a yetzer hara - one is a voice that tells you to do good; the other is a voice that tells you to do bad.

And remember the part about not going off on tangents? Your last line would be a tangent.