Doesn't living 100% integrity mean you die?

[UpperMaster]

The past few days I've been thinking deeply and trying hard to live with deep levels of integrity. 

With the definition of Integrity: Coherence between what you think, what you say and how you act.

We can quickly see how if you were 100% honest and with integrity all the time you wouldn't be able to survive and would ultimately die. Even basic survival necessitates some lying or omission. 

In any friendship or relationship, you chose to present yourself in a limited way for the best outcome, you chose to omit certain information to protect yourself (survival). I wasn't aware of how often I did this in my everyday life. 

By definition that is opportunistic and not integrous. 

The more I try to live with integrity as per this definition (I like this definition because it is operationalized), the more I realize that I would basically be slowly sacrificing my whole life.

[UpperMaster]

Oh and one other thing. I've been talking with Chatgpt about this, and he always says "Integrity is not transparency", he sort of presents this argument where omitting information for the sake of a better relationship with a person is completely fine (provided what your hiding is not relevant). I also agree, that in many cases it is the wise thing to do, but that is not integrity, by definition that is opportunism because you are omitting information for the sake of your own self-interest.

Maybe I am not articulating correctly, I just feel like social interactions necessitates presenting yourself un-holistically (especially when your not close to the person), so theres no way to be hundred percent integrous.

If you were a hundred percent integrous with everyone you meet, you'll probably get ostracized.

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by UpperMaster

[Joseph Maynor]

I see it as the reverse, but also more nuanced than that too.  I think to live with integrity means you live on and take accountability for how you live.