Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 4 months agoIf you feel like you're always being watched, can you really claim to have integrity?message-squaremessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down111
arrow-up128arrow-down1message-squareIf you feel like you're always being watched, can you really claim to have integrity?Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareMolochAlter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 months agoOf course, just because there’s an audience doesn’t mean you’re pandering to it. Fundamentally, integrity is an internal concept. Only you can know if you have it, because only you can truly know your motivations. As long as your moral choices are truly based on your own principles and you would do the same regardless of observation, then you have integrity. External factors can only give you reasons to pretend you have integrity, but they can’t prevent you genuinely having it.
Of course, just because there’s an audience doesn’t mean you’re pandering to it.
Fundamentally, integrity is an internal concept.
Only you can know if you have it, because only you can truly know your motivations.
As long as your moral choices are truly based on your own principles and you would do the same regardless of observation, then you have integrity.
External factors can only give you reasons to pretend you have integrity, but they can’t prevent you genuinely having it.