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Why Is It Important To Have Integrity

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Schools and workplaces have two main types of people, people that play by the rules and people that take the easy way-out. We all have heard the preaching that people who play by the rules, meaning that they don't cheat, they work hard, and are honest will be more successful than those who leech off of others' hard work and cheat to be successful. As a senior in high school, I am challenged with keeping my integrity everyday. I have the advantage of knowing who has integrity and who doesn't because I can overhear other students conversations during passing period. I am surrounded by peers who cheat and peers who are academically honest. Many teachers know that students get by in school by copying homework and cheating on tests. However, they fail to detect it and assign the appropriate punishment. It's disappointing to know that students who cheat and do the bare minimum are going to college along with those who have been working hard and playing by the rules. Furthermore, teachers themselves don't honor integrity. Many teachers, at Henry, take their lecture power points and tests from other teachers' …show more content…

However, guilt will never haunt them because their conscience occupies Kohlberg's post conventional morality stage. According to Saul McLeod, people in Kohlberg's post conventional morality stage, their "individual judgment is based on self chosen principle, and moral reasoning is based on individual rights and justice. People at this stage have developed their own moral guidelines which may or may not fit the law." To simplify, those that cheat, think that it is not corrupt because their actions are rationalized by their own moral guidelines of rights and wrongs rather than society's guidelines of rights and wrongs. The dissatisfaction with the way they achieved their success will never

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