UNSCRUPULOUS – a forgotten word?

I thought of this word the other day when I was doing a crossword. I realised I hadn’t heard it much of late, although there are plenty of unscrupulous people about! I remember my mother saying “they have no scruples” and understood what she meant.
Unscrupulous means, those without scruples, it’s that simple. My Roget’s labels the word under an adjective; dishonest, not on the level but also goes on to say such words as; slippery, cunning, shifty and so on. Let’s stick with unscrupulous.

I firmly believe that the word shame has also left our modern vocabulary and if there was shame then people wouldn’t behave quite so recklessly. Being unscrupulous means you have no moral compass to guide you, it means you lack any real empathy for your fellow human beings and you think only of yourself.

So perhaps unscrupulous people are also selfish people. What makes people unscrupulous is hard to imagine if you don’t have that same selfish view of the world. Selfish people don’t understand what community means, they don’t think of others unless it is to enhance their own gain.

I like to think that Steemians are, in the main, an unselfish lot. Just by reading random posts you can see at a glance that they care about others, when they address us as ‘fellow Steemians’ they mean it. They community and how it works. It works by thinking of others.

The difference is that because Steemians are anonymous, there is nothing gained from being mean or spiteful or behaving badly. Steemians have got that. It’s a good feeling. Being good to others is rewarding and by building on this we can really improve how we do things outside of this community. Because a community it is.

Happy Steeming!