Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Aug. 2013
The word integrity presents a wide and widespread use in our language.
Totality of something or someone, they are presented complete with all its components
When you want to express the totality or fullness presented by something or someone the term integrity is used to account for this.
If the concept is applied to a thing or object, we want to indicate with which that object is found made up of all its elements, not missing any, and in correct functioning.
Probity and adherence to the moral values that someone has
Meanwhile, as we will see below, if we apply it to an individual we can refer to the correctness and honesty that it possesses.
Now, within the concept we must also include the physical plane, impossible to ignore, that is, the integrity of a person implies its dimension moral This implies the values that it has and the way in which it behaves in life, as we have already pointed out, but also the physics that is closely linked with its body and that supposes that an individual cannot be attacked, manipulated, physically violated, and much less if there is no prior consent on the part of the interested.
Physical integrity: a right that must be preserved
If this happens, a very serious offense would be incurred against precisely the physical integrity of a person and whoever is doing it. affected may be reported, and if he is found guilty, he must pay for that damage according to what is established by the Justice.
The physical integrity of people is a right and it must be protected and guaranteed by the states.
The concept of physical integrity refers to the body as a healthy entity both internally and externally.
Among the examples of the affectation in this sense we can cite the blow that a person suffers in a robbery on the part of the criminal who attacks him; a medical procedure that hurts and for which there was no consent of the patient affected by it; and mental integrity can be compromised from verbal threats or other sayings that affect someone's mental health.
Righteousness in acting
And on the other hand, the word integrity is usually used when you want to indicate the rectitude that a person exhibits in his actions and think.
When an individual has integrity, he will be classified as integrity and it will be easy to recognize because he will act in such a way. balanced, honest and fair, that is, he will face with all his effort the injustices that arise and attack him or the environment of him.
Whoever exudes integrity in his behavior will be of confidence precisely because he will always act in the right direction and not looking for the action to bring him a benefit.
An appreciated value
For example, integrity in this sense is considered as a fundamental value in people, and that arouses admiration in others being appreciated, because of course, it is known in advance that this person will act in order to his principles and his ideas and that he will never will betray, for nothing in the world, nor for all the money offered to modify them, and that is precisely where the valuation lies, in that commitment.
So it is that people are the only ones responsible and with authority to decide on their lives in all planes, the physical and the moral, no one, and nothing can affect the right, or bend it by forcing it to carry out actions or submit.
For this sense of the word there are many synonyms of hyper popular use such as decency and honesty, while the concept that opposes it is that of corruption, which is used to indicate the commission of some bribery or bribery.
Purity available to someone
Also, the word integrity is used to designate chastity, purity and virginity available to a person.
Data, message and referential integrity
On the other hand, the word integrity appears linked to other terms giving rise to concepts such as: data integrity, message integrity and referential integrity.
At the request of the databases, referential integrity turns out to be a required property in these because it guarantees that a record is associated with other valid ones that are also part of the database.
For this to be fulfilled, there are programs that make it a reality and therefore avoid incorrect data, repetitions and bad associations between data.
And continuing with the databases, data integrity of a base consists of the correction exhibited by all the components of the same.
Regarding computing there are functions that guarantee message integrity which consists of the message that one individual sends to another is not modified.
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