They are "side effects" of treating people with basic decency.
So they had personal reason to rescue the mare, apart from basic decency.
She provided full meals and basic decency for her many children.
The law and basic human decency meant everything to him.
No rules, not even basic decency, except as a ruse.
Still, Martine had to acknowledge a certain basic decency in the man.
The only rules he broke were the ones of basic human decency.
He couldn't have guessed how much would eventually depend on that common sense and basic decency.
Just because an activity is a tradition should not relieve us of basic decency.
At bottom, people appreciate such basic decency because the world seems ever more indecent.