Welcome to the Decency Project

Lately, it's becoming very easy to be cynical in this world. It's getting easier and easier to believe, with a few exceptions, that the world is an indecent place filled with indecent people doing indecent things.

Maybe it's always been this way, or maybe we're just more aware of how the world works as we get older. The world seemed like a more decent place when we were kids, right? There just seems to be less role models, less institutions and less ideas to be inspired by. And the result? People looking out for themselves and their close friends and family, becoming insular, and losing faith in others.

Or possibly, the information that we get is designed only to deliver the worst of who we are: dangers, suspicions, atrocities, hate, pain, etc. In fact, there is evidence that shows that there are as much as 17 negative news reports for every one good news report. Our brains, as it turns out, are more receptive to dramatic and negative events to ensure our survival.

But sometimes we want to do more than survive. Sometimes we want to be reminded of the amazing things we do for one another everyday. We want to be reminded that the world is a decent place, filled with decent people doing decent things. We want to believe and be inspired, to show love to our fellow man, and to reach out to help those in need or to delight those whose day has turned dark.

Therefore, we've started the Decency Project, a place where we showcase our contributions of decency to the world through planned and unplanned acts of decency.


I'd define "decency" as an act that surprises and delights people in it's unexpectedness, it's novelty and it's utter lack of a need for reciprocity.

The idea came for this blog came from this powerful video:

Help us make the world a more decent place by showing us how you've made the world more decent through your acts, or submit ideas on what we can do for people!