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doing the right thing when the only witness is you and the dark.
means The quality of being honest and morally upright, holding firm to your principles even when no one's checking — and, in a related sense, the state of being whole and undivided.
from From Latin integritas, 'soundness, wholeness,' built on integer, 'untouched, whole, complete' — literally in- ('not') plus a root tied to tangere, 'to touch.' So integer means 'untouched,' unspoiled by tampering. That same integer gives mathematics its whole numbers, and it's why a thing with structural integrity hasn't cracked. The moral sense — a person undivided, all of one piece, not corrupted or broken into convenient parts — grew from that idea of wholeness.
- root word
- from Latin integer: whole, untouched, undivided
- engineering term
- structural integrity means a thing won't betray you
- no audience
- it costs most when nobody's checking the receipts
- unfakeable
- reputation is owned by others, integrity by you
edward snowden nsa leaks — whistleblower revealed 1.5 million classified documents in 2013 despite personal consequences