The World Ends

The World Ends

  • Submitted By: shingouki
  • Date Submitted: 10/27/2008 3:59 PM
  • Category: Religion
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Integrity is one of the army values. Integrity means to do what is right, legally, and morally, at all times. A person of high integrity is honest and trustworthy he does not lie to others and is reliable, you can always depend on him, you are also able to put your trust in him. As an individual, to have high integrity you must do what is right. For example if you find a wallet on the street, do you keep it? or turn it in. A person with high integrity will turn it in, as a person without integrity will keep it and wont say anything to anyone. Another example: lets say you witnessed someone get shot and die in the street and the person who did it just so happens to be a friend from work or school. He begs for you not to tell anyone to just forget it happened and he says he will never do it again. Will you report it or pretend you never saw it? Most people since it was their friend will not report it, I mean I would just pretend I didn’t see it happen, but that is wrong. To have integrity means to do what is right legally and morally, so the right thing to do would be to report it. It may not be what you wanted to do, but it is the right thing to do. Having integrity also means to not let others push you in the wrong direction by using peer pressure. you must resist peer pressure by others and instead tell them that what they are doing is wrong and unjust. Integrity also means you don’t take the easy way out of things if it is not the moral way to do it. Like a mechanic that has a certain time to do a service. He may be able to cut the service time short if he skips a few little things here and there. Then later on the equipment fails alot sooner than it would have if the mechanic had integrity and did the right thing and did the service completely. That mechanic by not having integrity and cutting his work short may have endangered some of the people operating that piece of equipment. Integrity has its pros and cons also. Having High integrity will make you and...

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