Personal Integrity Against Societal Integrity

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Personal Integrity against Societal Integrity What is integrity? Why is it important? There are two types of integrity; personal integrity and societal integrity. Personal integrity is more important, it is a strongly held sense of commitment to openness, honesty, inclusiveness, and high standards to ones beliefs. Societal integrity is a group of people with the same faith and or beliefs. Personal integrity is more important because your facts/ beliefs mean more than other people beliefs or thoughts. You personally know what is true and if the society does not want to get in trouble or something happen they will try to deny it all the way. In the “Crucible” Abigail and the other girls are in a way on their own team. Abigail and the girls blame Elizabeth Proctor at first of being a witch and with devil and will not change their minds for anything. Some other people may believe this is false and that societal integrity is more important than personal integrity because societal has more people and the more people there are the better chance right/ their beliefs are accurate. Some people believe societal is more important because it is a group of people against one other person’s beliefs. In the “Crucible” everybody believes Abigail and the girls that they were being witch crafted because there was so many girls saying the same story and so it seemed as if they were right and telling the truth. Some may believe that the more people there are against something the majority rules. However this is false because it is your personal beliefs against one person but your personal beliefs mean more than others do. In “The Crucible” Giles Cory is imprisoned for contempt of court, being forced to answer allegations about being a witch. He had gotten high weights on his chest by the government. If he said yes he would live but lose everything. If he said no he would die and
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