Using WT's own "logic", I could argue that here in Canada, MURDER is a "matter of conscience" and that the only reason I don't murder is because I have decided I don't want to, after studying the bible, or the Constitution Act, or consulting my conscience, or whatever.
The fact is, regardless of whether I have personally decded to murder someone, or not murder someone (because of my personal philosophy), murder is ILLEGAL and will be PUNISHED with prison time -- my conscience does not enter into the conclusion.
Similarly, for a JW, blood transfusion is "illegal" and will be punished.
Of course, my analogy is flawed in one respect, because most people don't want to, or have to, murder someone; but they often must receive a blood transfusion. Yet if they do, they contrravene the "laws" of Watchtowerism.
Watchtower spokesmen always use the same weak arguements that don't stand up to even rudimentary scrutiny.
~Q