2 Demonstrate integrity

Integrity is the basis of credit. Integrity is a spirit and principle, a moral norm and behavioral principle that must be observed in social interactions and economic activities. Credit is the application of the spirit and principles of integrity. In general social interactions, credit mainly refers to the subject of social interactions abiding by the principle of good faith, keeping promises and keeping promises, and gaining people's trust. This kind of trust constitutes the credit environment in which the entire society operates and is the basis for establishing and maintaining social order.

Integrity is the unity of self-discipline and heterodiscipline. It is not enough to regard integrity as a value or a moral code. Integrity is not only a kind of self-restraint, but also a social evaluation and a legal norm. People should have honest character, but whether they are honest and trustworthy should be a kind of social evaluation. Especially in the development of market economy, it is necessary to establish a set of social norms. Among these norms, the most important one is legal honesty. credit system.

Why should we be honest? From an ethical perspective, integrity is a moral resource, which can trigger competition among businesses for integrity; from an economic perspective, integrity is an intangible asset and the "core cost of capital value." In a mature market economy, competition among enterprises is mainly about brands and services. Therefore, integrity has become the core competitiveness in capital value, and core competitiveness determines the ability to add value to capital value and the ability to make profits.

What is the game of integrity? According to psychological theory, integrity is a higher-level need that arises after people's lower-level needs are moderately satisfied; the satisfaction that integrity brings to people will exceed the satisfaction that profit-seeking brings, so people pursue integrity in order to , sometimes you may give up some material benefits. But from an economic perspective, the basic motivation of human social behavior is to maximize personal interests. The same is true for integrity. It is a means for people to seek long-term and stable material interests in repeated games and discussions. Integrity is first and foremost a strategic choice based on the needs of interests, not based on psychological needs. moral choice. The most representative theory is game theory.

Game theory is to arrange and analyze all possible countermeasures in groups to provide reference for decision-making and system construction. On the issue of how integrity arises, game theory uses the method of making mathematical models to analyze. Suppose A is a manufacturer, B is a seller, and both parties AB are rivals in the game. The following four game possibilities will arise: First, both parties are honest, one delivers the goods as promised, and the other pays as promised, and each gets what he deserves. The utility obtained by each person is 10; secondly, if A is honest but B is dishonest, A delivers the goods but B does not pay, then B can get his own maximum benefit and get 15, while the other person suffers a loss and gets -10; The third is that A is dishonest and B is honest, that is, A receives the money but does not deliver the goods, then A's interests are maximized and he gets 15, while B suffers a loss and gets -10; fourth, A and B do not trust each other and do not trust each other. If you don't keep your word, your business will be ruined, and your respective utility will be 0.

In order to pursue their own best interests, both parties AB hope that the other party will be honest, but they are unwilling to be honest, because only when they are dishonest can they have the opportunity to maximize their own interests, and when they are honest people are likely to suffer losses. Therefore, the reasonable result must be that neither party chooses integrity, and the fourth result occurs. This result is very bad, because the comprehensive utility of both parties is 0, which is the worst of all choices.

The main reason why there is mutual dishonesty in the game is that both parties are doing a "one-shot deal", that is, the game is played only once. If this kind of game is repeated and continuous, then neither party will sacrifice the opportunity to continue cooperation and make long-term profits just to take advantage of it. Both parties will choose integrity and cooperation. It can be seen that in order to make integrity an active choice for gamers, the key is to transform one-time games into repeated games.

As for how to transform a one-time game into a repeated game, there are two basic ideas: First, each player establishes his or her own "circle", and the business between A and B may only be one-time. , but A has to deal with B's "circle" for a long time.

In this way, through the "circle", the one-time game between A and B is transformed into a repeated game in the "circle" where A and B are located. At the same time, the "circle" also has another function, which is to transmit information, turn the "double-blind" game into a "transparent" game, and increase the possibility of cooperation. Second, each player establishes and discloses his or her own credit record. The stain left by a breach of trust will be recorded and preserved, affecting the results of a series of future games. This turns a one-time game into a long-term, repetitive game. During its hundreds of years of development, capitalism has gradually established an insurance system and a credit system through countless game practices, which effectively ensured the repetition of games and provided a system for restricting speculation and promoting honest behavior in the business society. premise.

There is no doubt that a white lie itself is a lie. Lies, lying is deception, deception is immoral, and immoral things are unpopular. These have been taught by our teachers since childhood, but when we add a "goodwill" to lies, it seems that everyone may accept it. , this is a concentrated expression of the weakness of human nature. Mark Twain once said: "When you can't make up your mind, tell the truth. It will embarrass your opponents and relieve your friends." Therefore, the view of psychology experts is: Don't lie easily, even if it's a white lie. We believe that when distinguishing things, we should first start with the definition. Based on the definition of Kangxi Dictionary, a white lie is to seek truth without facts, to tell lies, to exaggerate, to cover up, and to distort the truth. Let’s start with the analysis of the phrase structure of white lies. It is a biased phrase, and the central word is lie. Therefore, white lies are essentially lies. Although the motives of white lies are good intentions, because good intentions themselves have certain uncertainties, they are often exploited by some "professional liars" - this is an indisputable fact. "Lies" themselves are dark. The likes and dislikes of things cannot be measured by their purpose. White lies themselves are lies. Although he took off his beggar's clothes and put on a cheongsam, he still couldn't get rid of the essence of lies, and lies meant deception, thus hindering integrity. The starting point of a white lie is good, but often once such a lie is exposed, it will hurt the other party more deeply. As a lie itself, it is an act contrary to integrity. As General Secretary Hu Jintao said in his speech: "The socialist harmonious society we want to build should be a society of democracy and the rule of law, fairness and justice, integrity and friendliness, full of vitality, stability and order, and a harmonious society between man and nature." Through the above-mentioned many Based on the analysis, we believe that no matter whether a lie has a good purpose or not, as a lie it will inevitably harm integrity. So-called white lies can also lead to unforeseen consequences. He also gave an example: A person is terminally ill. In order to allow him to spend the rest of his life peacefully, his relatives and friends unanimously hide it from him. There is absolutely no malice or self-interest in this, but it often fails to satisfy people's expectations and the deception cannot last long. On the contrary, the patient loses the rationality to cooperate with treatment and the opportunity to deal with personal affairs. The female philosopher Sisela Polk warned that such lies will put people on the verge of a major decline in personality. She wrote in her book "Lying, Moral Choices in Public and Private Life": "The psychological barriers disappear, the ability to distinguish truth from falsehood becomes more blurred, and the concept of believing that lies cannot be detected may tend to Paranoia." Some psychologists who have studied the phenomenon of lying suggest that before anyone wants to tell a "white lie" to friends, relatives, or colleagues, it is best to consider a question involving psychological reactions, that is, if the other party After knowing the truth, will I be grateful for your kindness, or will I feel that my long-term trust in you has been hurt by you? We believe that so-called kind lies are detrimental to integrity. Of course, the lies here are not the shocking scams that people usually say, but just pretend to affirm or support the practices, opinions or views of spouses, relatives and friends (actually they are not disapprove) lies. Here's an example from a company manager named Tom in Southern California. Tom spends Thanksgiving with his wife and son at his mother-in-law's house every year. He actually disliked eating a "special" pumpkin pie that his mother-in-law made, but told her how delicious her pie was to avoid hurting her feelings. "Is this wrong?" Tom asked his psychiatrist. This is a question that many people will ask. The psychologist asked him to see the lie from his mother-in-law's perspective.

Suppose one day, Tom's son confides the truth in front of his grandmother, and her mother-in-law discovers Tom's true feelings. Will she tell Tom, "Thank you for your kindness?" Or will she feel emotionally hurt and say, "How could you do this all these years?" What else are you hiding from me like this?" And what questions will Tom's mother-in-law have about herself? Will Tom's son also imitate his father's lies? How would he view his father's personality? Will he ever believe his father's words again? A novelist once wrote: "The first time we try to tell a lie, we become entangled in the web of disorder we weave." We think the other way around There are fundamental errors in the understanding and understanding of some concepts. Integrity is based on mutual frankness. Any deception, even so-called "white" lies, can be said to be completely contrary to "integrity". . Regarding the concept of "white lie", I don't think there is any need to demonstrate it here. It has been analyzed very clearly. Integrity has been advocated since ancient times. History goes back to 359 BC, when Shang Yang of the Qin Dynasty enacted legislation to enrich the country and strengthen the army with integrity. The allusion of "standing trees at the south gate" was staged. Shang Yang practiced Dharma for ten years. "The people of Qin are very happy, no one picks up things on the road, there are no thieves in the mountains, and the family has enough people." Today, as our country joins the WTO and the market economy is developing day by day, if counterfeiting is allowed to run rampant and credibility is lost, it will cause huge harm to economic life and bring disastrous consequences to social life. The current of dishonesty will surely erode like the plague. Trust between people hinders the pace of the socialist market economy. Looking back at the painful experience, it is urgent to advocate integrity, punish breach of trust, and improve the credit ethics and credit legal system. Time is running out. I would like to ask my fellow debaters on the opposite side, how can lies be good intentions? If they are lies, they hinder integrity. I would like to ask my fellow debaters on the other side, what is integrity? What does our society need?

We must reject lies and insist on integrity. How can we avoid the embarrassment encountered by the opposing party in work and life? We believe:

If you refuse at the beginning, there will be no embarrassing situation later. We now live in a time where candidness is frowned upon.

"Don't say that the hat worn by the aunt next door is ugly, do you hear me?"

"You have to tell the new head teacher, 'I am very happy that you are our head teacher'!"

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When we say similar things, it is not our sincere thoughts, but rather we choose some good words to say to each other that are not sad. This is because we believe that white lies are indispensable in life.

Shall we look at this problem from the opposite perspective? When someone wears an ugly hat, we can tell them truthfully that something is wrong. That's because telling white lies all the time can get you into trouble. Therefore, you need to learn when to tell the truth and when to tell white lies, otherwise you will be unable to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

For example, suppose you receive a birthday invitation from a not-so-close friend on the weekend. You don’t want to go, but you are afraid of being angry if you refuse, so you agree vaguely. Time flies by so fast. Seeing that it's almost your friend's birthday, you still don't want to go, so now you find a reason to tell him that you can't go. Think about it, what will the other person think of you at this time? The other party will definitely see that you are unwilling to go, and they will definitely be very angry.

You didn’t refuse at first, but you still made your friend angry. What would it be like to show your attitude when invited?

"I am very happy to be invited, but I can't go because I have something to do in town that day."

If you refuse at the beginning, there will be no embarrassment later.

The second opponent, please note that even if it is a white lie, as a lie itself, it is an act contrary to integrity. Therefore, no matter whether the lie has a good purpose, as a lie itself, it will definitely hinder the Integrity. Therefore, I want to speak loudly here, let us reject white lies and jointly build an honest society.

Please note to the other debaters that there are big omissions in your defense. We believe that when distinguishing things, we should first start with the definition. Based on the definition of Kangxi Dictionary, a white lie is to seek truth without facts, to tell lies, to exaggerate, to cover up, and to distort the truth. Let’s start with the analysis of the phrase structure of white lies. It is a biased phrase, and the central word is lie. Therefore, white lies are essentially lies. Although the motives of white lies are good intentions, because good intentions themselves have certain uncertainties, they are often exploited by some "professional liars" - this is an indisputable fact.

"Lies" themselves are dark. The likes and dislikes of things cannot be measured by their purpose. White lies themselves are lies. Although he took off his beggar's clothes and put on a cheongsam, he still couldn't get rid of the essence of lies, and lies meant deception, thus hindering integrity. The starting point of a white lie is good, but often once such a lie is exposed, it will hurt the other party more deeply. As a lie itself, it is an act contrary to integrity.

In the 20-word code of ethics proposed in the "Implementation Outline for Citizen Morality Construction" promulgated by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, "integrity" is a very important code. Integrity is the pursuit of "truth" and the pursuit of integrity. justice. The ancients said that "the true one" is the most sincere person. If you are not refined or sincere, you cannot move people.

As General Secretary Hu Jintao said in his speech: "The harmonious socialist society we want to build should be democracy and the rule of law, fairness and justice, integrity and friendliness, full of vitality, stability and order, and harmony between man and nature. society. ”

Through the above-mentioned multi-faceted analysis, we believe that no matter whether a lie has a good purpose, it will definitely hinder integrity as a lie.

Although lies are well-intentioned, as a lie itself, it is an act contrary to integrity. Therefore, regardless of whether the lie has a good purpose, as a lie, it will definitely hinder integrity.

Looking back at the national spirit, it turns out that integrity is actually in the dim light. Across the river of thousands of years, one can still clearly hear: Integrity is the virtue of the Chinese nation, just like the Great Wall is the symbol of the Chinese nation. If a person loses his integrity, what he leaves behind is hypocrisy: if an enterprise loses its integrity, it will face bankruptcy; and if a nation loses its integrity, it will face corruption and death!

If you keep your word and integrity, you will have a pure land; if you keep your word and integrity, you will succeed; if you keep your word and integrity, the Chinese nation will be eternal.

Here I would like to ask the other classmate, when a person loses his integrity, does his starting point still have good intentions?

So-called white lies may also lead to unforeseen consequences. He also gave an example: A person is terminally ill. In order to allow him to spend the rest of his life peacefully, his relatives and friends unanimously hide it from him. There is absolutely no malice or self-interest in this, but it often fails to satisfy people's expectations and the deception cannot last long. On the contrary, the patient loses the rationality to cooperate with treatment and the opportunity to deal with personal affairs. The female philosopher Sisela Polk warned that such lies will put people on the verge of a major decline in personality. She wrote in her book "Lying, Moral Choices in Public and Private Life": "The psychological barriers disappear, the ability to distinguish truth from falsehood becomes more blurred, and the concept of believing that lies cannot be detected may tend to Paranoia." Some psychologists who have studied the phenomenon of lying suggest that before anyone wants to tell a "white lie" to friends, relatives, or colleagues, it is best to consider a question involving psychological reactions, that is, if the other party After knowing the truth, will I be grateful for your kindness, or will I feel that my long-term trust in you has been hurt by you?

"White lies are more of an excuse"!

Anyone who uses an excuse is trying to use it to protect themselves or others. Help us save face so we can endure setbacks.

Gaismer said: "It is quite common to think that you are better than you really are." The excuses people come up with are sometimes unexpected. Why do people deceive themselves and others? American humorist Lai Dele pointed out: "Most people do not live in reality, but live in fantasies, especially fantasies about themselves." Then again, it is sometimes difficult to understand the truth about yourself and your friends. It's very cruel, and it's best not to know about it.

However, most excuses are destructive. Using excuses unconsciously can fool yourself, if not others.

So I ask the other party to realize, have more integrity and less excuses! At the same time, I would like to ask the other party, if everyone has this view, how can we build an honest society and how can our country develop greater integrity?

I think even if lies are well-intentioned, they can have negative consequences everywhere. No need to give examples. This negative impact on integrity is often relatively subtle and is a kind of chronic poisoning. Ignoring this poison is undoubtedly deceiving oneself and stealing the bell. I would like to ask the other debaters, you keep saying that white lies and honesty are two different categories, please give an accurate definition of white lies

If a country and a nation can always be fair and honest, If we treat and evaluate objective things with a clear heart, we will definitely create an atmosphere of honesty and clarity, rather than a vicious circle of intrigue.

Premier Zhu Fangji pointed out in the government work report at the fifth session of the Ninth National People's Congress that it is necessary to "effectively strengthen the construction of social credit and gradually form a good governance system in which integrity is the basis and ethics is the priority in the whole society. fashion". Being sincere and making friends with trust is an important part of our country's traditional morality. It is also a fundamental measure to maintain the normal operation of the economy, promote institutional innovation, and rectify and standardize the market economic order at present and in the future. At present, with the rapid development of the economy and society and the evolution of people's values, the lack of credit in some fields and individuals has increasingly become a serious social hazard and must be paid great attention to. As the other party said in the first argument, there is no good intention in lies. Since they are lies, they hinder integrity. May I ask the other party, what is integrity? What is lacking in our society?

We believe that the opponent has some concepts. There are fundamental errors in our understanding and knowledge. Integrity is based on mutual frankness. Any deception, even the so-called "good faith" lies, can be said to be completely inconsistent with "integrity". . Regarding the concept of "white lies", I don't think there is any need to demonstrate it here. It has been analyzed very clearly.