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Integrity means following your moral or ethical convictions and doing the right thing in all circumstances, even if no one is watching you.
Having integrity means you are true to yourself and would do nothing that demeans or dishonors you, or those you represent.
Your integrity is questioned. You responding with righteous indignation. You neglect to counter any of the reasons for the challenge.
You continue to do the wrong thing.
Your actions further prevent anyone else from doing the moral or right thing.
Your actions can only be attributed to you.
Even though you have been told to do the wrong thing by someone else.
Your decisions and your actions affect YOUR integrity.
When YOU decide to do the wrong thing, IT’S ON YOU.
When you know that you are being instructed to do the wrong thing, IT’S ON YOU.
When you know you are committing or participating in a crime, IT”S ON YOU.
A grown man who knows right from wrong won’t be excused for his crime because someone else told him to do it. IT’S ON HIM.
And… IF THAT SOMEONE ELSE IS A LAWYER WHO ALSO KNOWS BETTER. He knows legal from illegal. Lawyers must protect their clients truths. Because of that rule, lawyers cannot always disclose the truth. Lawyers can always lie. And they do.
If you sell out your integrity to a person who can’t legally tell you to commit a crime. Rest assured he will lie.
His lack of integrity is protected by his lie.
“He couldn’t have told you to commit a crime. He knows its a crime. He isn’t permitted by law to do that.”
AND… YOU’RE A GROWN MAN. IT”S ON YOU.
If you trust your integrity to someone who can lie with impunity, someone who can shift the blame to you, someone who will lie, someone who tells you to do the wrong thing, …
You will find your integrity is insufficient or overdrawn…
when they are incredulous at your suggestion that a lawyer told you to commit a crime,
when the grown-assed man who knows right from wrong commited a crime,
The truth is not considered. The lies are more logical.
Your credibility is GONE.
Your integrity?
If you had integrity, you never would have followed the advice of a known liar.
You being law enforcement protect hims completely.
The same cannot be said for yourself.
HE HAS NO INTEGRITY. HE USED YOURS.
AND NOW, YOU’RE OVERDRAWN / INSUFFICIENT.
WHEN YOU HAVE NO INTEGRITY AND YOUR INTEGRITY IS CHALLENGED, … SET UP. THE BEST YOU CAN DO IS GET ANGRY.
CONVINCE YOURSELF AND OTHERS OF INTEGRITY YOU DON’T REALLY HAVE.
YOU CAN’T BACK ANY OF YOUR ACTIONS UP, WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION IS THE LAST DITCH EFFORT TO CONCEAL YOUR SHAME.
NO INTEGRITY. THEN, THE CELL DOOR SLAMS CLOSED.
