Consistency

To think act or speak in agreement with what has already been thought done or expressed; to have intellectual or moral integrity. Human life and thought is filled with inconsistency hypocrisy and contradiction. We often say one thing and do another judge ourselves and our friends by one standard and our antagonists by another lean over backwards to justify what we want or negate what does not serve our interests.

Similarly we often confuse desires with needs treating our desires as equivalent to needs putting what we want above the basic needs of others. Logical and moral consistency are fundamental values of fairminded critical thinking. Social conditioning and native egocentrism often obscure social contradictions inconsistency and hypocrisy. See personal contradiction social contradiction intellectual integrity human nature.