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Integrity. Who had it? Who has it? Why?

Integrity. Who had it? Who has it? Why?

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Risky Thicket

Risky Thicket

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Using the Merriam-Webster definition of integrity:

[FONT=&quot][h=2]Definition of integrity[/h]1:firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values :incorruptibility

2:an unimpaired condition :soundness

3:the quality or state of being complete or undivided :completeness






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Who had it or who has is? Does it still exist? Will Millennials return the concept to American culture? Does integrity even matter?

It would be fun to post a long list of choices. We are limited only to 10. I've tried to assemble a diverse list. Admittedly it is an impossible task. No matter, please respond to the choices given. It's multiple choice. (To those of you from Alabama, Iowa and Bagdad, Louisiana that means you can choose as many as you like.)

The winner will receive a free weekend eating bean burritos with Danarhea and X-Factor in Houston. Good luck with that.

The consolation prize will be eating bean burritos with Danarhea and X-Factor in Houston.
 
Feckin hell! I meant to add Malcom X.

I would vote that he did in fact exhibit personal integrity.
 
Justin Trudeau would receive a maybe from me if that were possible. It's too early to tell, IMHO, if he has les boules at this stage of the game.
 
Golda...

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Risky Thicket said:
Using the Merriam-Webster definition of integrity:

[FONT="][h=2]Definition of integrity[/h]1:firm [URL="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adherence"]adherence[/URL] to a code of especially moral or artistic values :incorruptibility

2:an unimpaired condition :soundness

3:the quality or state of being complete or undivided :completeness






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Who had it or who has is? Does it still exist? Will Millennials return the concept to American culture? Does integrity even matter?

It would be fun to post a long list of choices. We are limited only to 10. I've tried to assemble a diverse list. Admittedly it is an impossible task. No matter, please respond to the choices given. It's multiple choice. (To those of you from Alabama, Iowa and Bagdad, Louisiana that means you can choose as many as you like.)

The winner will receive a free weekend eating bean burritos with Danarhea and X-Factor in Houston. Good luck with that.

The consolation prize will be eating bean burritos with Danarhea and X-Factor in Houston.
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Why in the world did you include Hillary and Trump? :confused: When it comes to integrity those two wouldn't even make it on my list of 1 billion people who has more integrity.
 
Kal'Stang said:
Why in the world did you include Hillary and Trump? :confused: When it comes to integrity those two wouldn't even make it on my list of 1 billion people who has more integrity.
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For contrast, obviously!
 
Martin Luther?

His antagonistic tracts regarding Jews - 'On the Jews and Their Lies' and 'On the Holy Name and the Lineage of Christ' - both greatly exacerbated antisemitism during the European Reformation.
 
Risky Thicket said:
Using the Merriam-Webster definition of integrity:

[FONT="][h=2]Definition of integrity[/h]1:firm [URL="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adherence"]adherence[/URL] to a code of especially moral or artistic values :incorruptibility

2:an unimpaired condition :soundness

3:the quality or state of being complete or undivided :completeness






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Who had it or who has is? Does it still exist? Will Millennials return the concept to American culture? Does integrity even matter?

It would be fun to post a long list of choices. We are limited only to 10. I've tried to assemble a diverse list. Admittedly it is an impossible task. No matter, please respond to the choices given. It's multiple choice. (To those of you from Alabama, Iowa and Bagdad, Louisiana that means you can choose as many as you like.)

The winner will receive a free weekend eating bean burritos with Danarhea and X-Factor in Houston. Good luck with that.

The consolation prize will be eating bean burritos with Danarhea and X-Factor in Houston.
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Most people thought jfk was a picture postcard of integrity till after he had been dead for a while. I always thought Aaron Burr was in a quirky way. But Washington couldn't tell a lie. ;)
 
Chomsky said:
For contrast, obviously!
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Exactly, I could have listed all the members of Vanilla Fudge or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and people would disagree.

This thread is not about my opinion. It is about everyone's individual opinion.

People can easily determine how I voted considered the choices given. But do they? :roll: No, some want me to have given them choices that reflect their opinions. How does that work?

Depth and diversity were my intent with 10 choices out of mankind.
 
Kal'Stang said:
Why in the world did you include Hillary and Trump? :confused: When it comes to integrity those two wouldn't even make it on my list of 1 billion people who has more integrity.
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Mine either. However, I didn't make this list to suit either one of us.

I did not write the poll with the intent of it being a popularity poll. Some people I voted for are not people I agree with. I voted for people who I believe have personal integrity.

Hillary and Trump, IMHO, have the collective integrity of a dog fart, but some people do believe either or both have a large degree of integrity.
 
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Risky Thicket said:
Exactly, I could have listed all the members of Vanilla Fudge or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and people would disagree.

This thread is not about my opinion. It is about everyone's individual opinion.

People can easily determine how I voted considered the choices given. But do they? :roll: No, some want me to have given them choices that reflect their opinions. How does that work?

Depth and diversity were my intent with 10 choices out of mankind.
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Yeah, but there should have been at least one fictional character ... :2razz:
 
I chose Martin Luther. Can't say I'm a fan of the man, but he stuck to his guns. He had the courage to back up his conviction, from which he never wavered.

The very definition of integrity.
 
I would like to add Galileo.
 
Mister Rogers.
 
Risky Thicket said:
Using the Merriam-Webster definition of integrity:

[FONT="][h=2]Definition of integrity[/h]1:firm [URL="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adherence"]adherence[/URL] to a code of especially moral or artistic values :incorruptibility

2:an unimpaired condition :soundness

3:the quality or state of being complete or undivided :completeness






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Who had it or who has is? Does it still exist? Will Millennials return the concept to American culture? Does integrity even matter?

It would be fun to post a long list of choices. We are limited only to 10. I've tried to assemble a diverse list. Admittedly it is an impossible task. No matter, please respond to the choices given. It's multiple choice. (To those of you from Alabama, Iowa and Bagdad, Louisiana that means you can choose as many as you like.)

The winner will receive a free weekend eating bean burritos with Danarhea and X-Factor in Houston. Good luck with that.

The consolation prize will be eating bean burritos with Danarhea and X-Factor in Houston.
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Nobody on that list has integrity, IMO. So, none of the above.
 
Risky Thicket said:
Justin Trudeau would receive a maybe from me if that were possible. It's too early to tell, IMHO, if he has les boules at this stage of the game.
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Beaucoup de balles et le respect qui va avec.

I don't usually front my own prime minister, but slowly my admiration for this kid grows. What I notice is references to and about him in the foreign media, which is not known for being kind to Canada. But they respect him highly in Europe, possibly because the comparison with Trump is brutal. That is assuming you meant Martin Luther the rebel protestant and not Martin Luther King who gets my vote
 
joG said:
Most people thought jfk was a picture postcard of integrity till after he had been dead for a while. I always thought Aaron Burr was in a quirky way. But Washington couldn't tell a lie. ;)
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Hate to tell you but Washington told a lot of lies and Aaron Burr left the mothers of his illegitimate children penniless.
 
I would like to nominate former senator, now deceased, Daniel Patrick Moynihan. This liberal senator from a liberal state steadfastly opposed President Lyndon Johnson's inclusion of the Social Security Trust Fund into the US General Fund. Waging a war in Vietnam and a War On Poverty at home, the deficit was spiraling out of control. To make it look like the deficits he was running were actually much lower, Johnson devised a plan to end SS as a separate account and fold it into the general fund. One of the only Congressmen to oppose this deception, Monyihan predicted that it would jeopardize the health and integrity of the entire SS system, and lead to greater deficits in the future. He was correct in every prediction.
 
Fearandloathing said:
The Terminator, hands down
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I was thinking Superman.

But I always was a sucker for that John Wayne-like, "Truth, Justice, and the American way"!

My Polish side of the family actually was just like that. Decent, hardworking, in love with America, and honest as the day is long. Everyday in America was a privilege to be part of the greatest experiment ever! All Catholics, who everyday preached, demanded, and tried to show examples of honesty, morality, and ethics. And they were pretty good at it. My father even considered it his moral obligation to pay his fair share of taxes. No different than his enlisting in the service. Hell, he'd throw in a coupla' extra bucks to the IRS if he thought it would help! I'm serious, here.

Those guys, and those generations are gone. We are at a great loss for it.
 
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