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integrity

siuying
edited April 2008 in General
so since baby e touched upon the subject of trust.. i'd like to see what everyone feels about personal integrity..

do you think that integrity should be earned.. or that everyone should be deemed as an honest individual and let his/her actions or words prove otherwise? what's your take on this? and how do you assess someone's integrity?

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  • callonmeee
    edited April 2008
    Integrity to me is how you discern between what's right and wrong, and how you act upon it regardless of personal consequences. In other words, if you are an individual with good integrity then you always do the right thing disregarding whether or not you will personally gain from it.

    Everyone should be deemed as a righteous individual unless otherwise (like innocent unless proven guilty). His/her actions show whether or not that person maintains a high level of integrity. It's hard to assess someone's integrity because sometimes you just don't know everything about the circumstances in which the individual performed an action. You have to know the person well and see him/her making choices to do actions in various situations to judge if him/her has good personal integrity.
  • Shi2
    edited April 2008
    Everyone should not be deemed as an honest individual. We need to always keep our guard up to avoid being cheated on and to protect ourselves.

    Integrity should be earned and it's not what you say that makes your personal integrity, it's what others say and think of you that creates your personal integrity.
  • ooeygooey
    edited April 2008
    Earned. No one should be given anything. Not a single thing. Especially when it comes to relationships.

    How it's earned doesnt have to be directly at you. I think know of a situation that happened and that person handled it in a good way...I think it suffices.

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