Integrity is getting harder to find.
Twenty-four ways to know if you have it:
First, what integrity's not:
Doing what's popular instead of what's right
Acting differently in private than in public
Saying one thing and doing another
Letting fear dictate your decisions
Taking credit for others' work
Valuing success over ethics
Hiding your mistakes
Following the crowd
Turning a blind eye
Making excuses
Blaming others
Staying silent
Integrity is:
Transparency
Ethical behavior
Keeping your word
Acting with courage
Treating others fairly
Owning your mistakes
Respecting confidentiality
Showing respect for others
Admitting when you're wrong
Standing up for what you believe
Refusing to compromise your values
Doing what's right, even when it's hard
In a world that values success at any cost, #Integrity is the ultimate success.
➟ It's always doing the right thing.
➟ Not because someone is watching.
➟ But because it's the right thing to do.
I'd add: believing morality, which is always relative and regional, is the same thing as ethics. There's a reason Spinoza's masterpiece The Ethics was called that. Ethical behavior is fundamental. Core. Morality is a thin veneer that all too often hides something nasty.
It's been noted that it's a profound error to believe small acts of good, or of bad, do not matter because they are small.
No sage ever has been unethical. Many religious types are.
In my adolescence I began a journey of information literacy, questioning everything fed to me. Someone who seemed to always tell the truth, with integrity and compassion, was Dan Rather.
He was on the TV a lot when I was a kid. When he retired I was sad. But he’s still here, delivering the goods. And I’m grateful for that.
Please include sources for your posts, statements and videos otherwise you are no different to any other echo chamber rather than a reliable #news source.
Title 8 and Title 18 already are active US laws that require citizenship for one to be allowed to vote. The Speaker of the House is failing all of us by focusing on problems solved in previous centuries instead of the problems we face today.
Call him and demand the bill supporting Ukraine get a vote: +1-202-225-4000
@ap236 if the Cons feel they have these rural and small town seats locked up, why would they provide anything more than lip service to these areas? #onpoli
Corruption is not easily shucked. Kind of like a virus caused disease, like COVID.
Too soo we forget about corruption infested rightwing politics. The boom and bust cycles of the economy might be more related to short memories than anything else.
See, remember, the wrong of the right and vote for the good left.
"We are, all of us, engaged every day in the construction of a moral order: by our accumulated individual examples, the words we use, the acts we condone, we can make it one that encourages decency and compassion towards others, or the reverse. This is particularly true of those in positions of leadership, political or other."