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RE: Thinking About Values: What Does INTEGRITY Mean to You?
I was just talking to someone about integrity when your post came up. What are the odds of that? So I ask you, when integrity is mixed emotions of a political game, who wins? When did integrity stop being about doing what is right?
How cool is THAT?!
I wanted to bring this up precisely because it increasingly feels to me like we live in a world where integrity has become this strange slippery fish, rather than-- as you said-- simply about doing what is right.
Certainly, there are situations where people have differing interpretations of "right," but on the whole, most people know what "right action" looks like, and most people also understand the notion of "do no harm" even when that may not be 100% in alignment with their immediate objectives. "OK, so I will NOT dump this bucket of sewage in the creek just because it is 'easy' because there are kids swimming donwstream, and they will get sick. Even if nobody will even know it was me."
But more and more, people don't think beyond their personal and immediate gratification... consequences be damned...
But who’s definition of “right” must we go by. That there is the issue as everyone’s is a bit different with many aspects being similar as well.
Well, that would depend ..
Right is something that is not wrong. Perhaps it is easier to define a negative word, as the positive words might have different interpretations for different people.
Doing the right thing is not causing harm to any other human being. Or at least this is what it means in the lower level.
It is a value that needs to be broken down in order to be further explained, depending on its context.
The ancient Greek philosophers would consider integrity to be one of the most important virtues and they would define it as being honest to self, stand up to what one believes, and to keep ones word.
Everything begins in our inner self and how it is reflected to our environment.
Thank you @denmarkguy for bringing up a nice topic for some self-quest and discussion :)