Integrity " is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. It is generally a personal choice to uphold oneself to consistent moral and ethical standards.[1]
In ethics, integrity is regarded by many people as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions. Integrity can stand in opposition tohypocrisy,[2] in that judging with the standards of integrity involves regarding internal consistency as a virtue, and suggests that parties holding within themselves apparently conflicting values should account for the discrepancy or alter their beliefs."
I wonder if integrity counts as a principle when conducting business in our country. At present, I would compare it to a baloon bursting everytime someone shoots a critical arrow against a callous administration. A renter at Bahay Caridad incurred one thousand plus Meralco bills. Then transferred to the unit directly in front of the previous one. Instead of collecting from this individual, Meralco is collecting and threatens to cut off the services of the next renter to the original place. Is that right?
The reason of the consumer welfare supervisor is that it is their policy that the owner of the unit shall be the one to shoulder the burden of running after the delinquent renter. But is that still right, if that renter couldbe tracked down anyway? This renter is notorious for blackmailing the unit owner to pay her P6,000 so she could transfer to another place, while claiming that she is a battered woman, that she does not have a job, etc. The judge was taken fully by her sob story but now she has transferred to a unit that is even expense in terms of rent.
Now, the Meralco which is the number one business company in the Philippines chooses to burder the unit owner with running after the user of the electricity which lives just across. Is that being a Christian?
AT Barangay Dona Imelda, the PNP intelligence group has chosen to harass a writer, to the extent of tampering with the sewage system, jamming the celfone lines, pilfering important private documents, and teaching her relatives not to give her due share in the rental business of the family. Where lies the integrity of the PNP here, as protector of the state? It is protecting the interests of the powers-that-be whose only claim to power is that their president has the same family name as the sacrificial lamb who was killed at the tarmac yet, does not possess his heart and mind.
Let us instill integrity in our society. Let those who earn so much reshape their hearts beating for the poor not their pockets.
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