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by gruez 1699 days ago
The definition of integrity literally includes "consistent and uncompromising adherence".

>Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values.

It's hard to say you're consistent and uncompromising, if you make exceptions and compromise when it's convenient/beneficial for you.

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Strong is not the same thing as absolute. One of my strong ethical values is that neo-nazis and fascists should be deplatformed to the greatest extent possible.
>Strong is not the same thing as absolute

"strong" is a modifier for "moral and ethical principles and values", not for "consistent and uncompromising adherence". If you swore to support and defend the constitution, and then subsequently violated it to torture terrorists, I doubt you'd be called a man of integrity. This applies even if your other "strong ethical values" is "protecting the american people", or that you think that "terrorists are really bad people so they totally deserve it".

>One of my strong ethical values is that neo-nazis and fascists should be deplatformed to the greatest extent possible.

I have a feeling that's not the ethical value that OP was talking about, nor was it the ethical value f-droid founders had in mind when creating it.