no its not derogatory!! atleast not for me , actually i regard it as the most valuable adjective of a human being. If talking about integrity rings bells about morals and shit like that i would like to mention that both travel in opposite directions. (Comparatively, integrity is about being a little more stupid with life.) ill tell you how....
Morals are like those text books given to you when you are in the school, its a format passed down through generations of assholishness, an attempt to customize you just the way they wanted you to be, and worse...to make you just like them. They are those ruled notebooks on which you are supposed to write, to be embraced without wonder and suspicion. Everybody wants you to be predictable, they want you write in straight lines. If you think about it... Its a better survival strategy to be moral,cos you win more brownie points from all the assholes who are running the show (parents, teachers, bosses, so 4th,). so all the suckers who turn up to work at 9:30 in pressed clothes climb the stairway to disneyland, than the ones who try and give their best . If your one of those people whom im talkin about, you most probably,are looking for spelling mistakes amongst these paragraphs and we occur to be mutual assholes.
Integrity on the other hand has more to do with choice and about being self supportive, attempting to find answers from inside for all those things you (are asked to) do. It starts with wondering and ends with understanding,,,,a full circle!It works more like oriental medicine. So if you want nobody to fuck around your personal choices, you also know, what not to do. so when you are trying to do things you go through a process of question and answers and try to reach comprehension, it makes it less probable that you, do say or accept things without knowing them.its like You wash your socks because it feels good in clean ones and not becasue your'e aunt laughed at you. its state of existence where you are defining your right and wrong, and because you've figured it out all by yourself and you will never tell anyone about cleaning their socks. (however, you can chose introduce them to the concept if you care enough). Basically you try and keep the rules same for you and everyone else.
In set theory this is called closure property. If you were to be considered a set "P" and all that you do and believe, values and stuff are set of {P}=(a,b,c,d,.....x), all these elements have the property of being closed i.e, an operation between the elements results in a an element within the set itself, you do what you, believe and vice versa. well....its a hypothetical state of existence and its always a journey towards that and you are never actually there.
In set theory again if u remember there are things called integers, it is interesting to think that the word integer actually means, complete, whole and may be where the word integrity boroows the meaning, back then philosophy and math were not 2 different things
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well..ehem! going a little overboard... a laterally orthogonal possibility that the above mentioned thought process creates an underlying lifecycle of ups and downs (literally illustrated by the sine curve) in a persons life.
