I was sorely tempted to change this to Inuit (pronounced Eye-knew-it) — my polar bear character, who is likely to be more fun to talk about than integrity.\u00a0 But integrity is more important than my fictional character.\u00a0 The layman’s definition of integrity is “doing the right thing even when nobody is watching or will know.”<\/p>\n
Inuit struggles with an integrity question when she eats a California sea lion.\u00a0 In the polar bear world, there’s no integrity question.\u00a0 Bears eat sea lions (or, preferably, seals).\u00a0 It’s normal, natural, and completely in line with nature’s intention, so, when Inuit was swimming off the beaches of Los Angeles, it seemed perfectly normal to her to eat a sea lion she snuck up behind while it was sunning on the rocks — until she remembered that people don’t do that.\u00a0 People, ahem, do not eat sea lions, and if they wander out to the rocks where sea lions hang out and kill one, someone will be asking questions.\u00a0 Inuit is trying to live in a human world. What does a bear with integrity do?<\/p>\n
Do she ignore the situation and hope nobody will notice?\u00a0 Does she come forward and own up to what happened?\u00a0 Did she do anything wrong? Could her actions or in-actions take an acceptable situation and create an unacceptable one by how she chooses to handle the situation?\u00a0 Fitting into human culture isn’t as easy as it looks.<\/p>\n
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