Giving everyone the same opportunity and treating them without bias or favoritism. Making just laws, enforcing them properly, and acting in good faith toward all. Being objective in judgments and following established procedures.
Includes teamwork, friendship, citizenship, Social Responsibility, and religious participation. Identification with and obligation to the common good that is beyond selfishness. Involves expressing our interests as they apply to others and the community.
The daily choice not to seek revenge but to treat offenders as persons of value. Replacing bitterness, resentment, and/or hatred with positive emotions (Empathy, Love). Forgiveness helps resolve conflict, reduces stress, prevents illness, and relaxes the mind.
Tolerance is sympathy for beliefs or practices different than one’s own. Discernment is an ability to discriminate subtle differences between right and wrong. Insight is perceiving contributing and conflicting truths that enable good decision-making.
The ability to perceive others cues concerning motives, feelings, thoughts, and desires. Verbal cues are volume, inflexion, pace, tone, and pitch. Visual cues are facial expressions, eye contact, posture, movement, gestures, and attending.
Deep affection, attachment, or fondness toward another. Closeness toward another based on Trust, shared experience, and warmth The choice to put another’s interests and concerns above one’s own.
Empathy in action sensitivity and Compassion in attitude, words, and behavior. Generous, warmhearted, gentle, considerate, and helpful toward others.
Valuing oneself and others on the same standard. Giving attention, deference, and consideration to others while caring for oneself. Involves strengths of Honesty, Humility, Cooperation, and Courage.