Decency

We all grow up with our own sense of decency. What feels right, what we believe is right, what we believe is not a choice for us. Some of it is cultural, some familial, some defensive, and some because we think it should be that way.

Of course most of the time things are not quite so neatly sorted out by either ourselves, or the world around us.

I have seen people who have an inflated sense of these things because they feel inferior in some way. And, I have seen people who appear to believe they are absolved from all but a rudimentary show of any decency due to their elevated position in, well, in their mind most of all.

The truth lies not in what people want them to be, or say they believe. It is in the way they live.

A truly decent person treats everyone with dignity and does what they can to see the world does too.