What makes somebody a decent person?

“Civilized people must, I believe, satisfy the following criteria:

1) They respect human beings as individuals and are therefore always tolerant, gentle, courteous and amenable ... They do not create scenes over a hammer or a mislaid eraser; they do not make you feel they are conferring a great benefit on you when they live with you, and they don't make a scandal when they leave. (...)

2) They have compassion for other people besides beggars and cats. Their hearts suffer the pain of what is hidden to the naked eye. (...)

3) They respect other people's property, and therefore pay their debts.

4) They are not devious, and they fear lies as they fear fire. They don't tell lies even in the most trivial matters. To lie to someone is to insult them, and the liar is diminished in the eyes of the person he lies to. Civilized people don't put on airs; they behave in the street as they would at home, they don't show off to impress their juniors. (...)

5) They don't run themselves down in order to provoke the sympathy of others. They don't play on other people's heartstrings to be sighed over and cosseted ... that sort of thing is just cheap striving for effects, it's vulgar, old hat and false. (...)

6) They are not vain. They don't waste time with the fake jewellery of hobnobbing with celebrities, being permitted to shake the hand of a drunken [judicial orator], the exaggerated bonhomie of the first person they meet at the Salon, being the life and soul of the bar ... They regard prases like 'I am a representative of the Press!!' -- the sort of thing one only hears from [very minor journalists] -- as absurd. If they have done a brass farthing's work they don't pass it off as if it were 100 roubles' by swanking about with their portfolios, and they don't boast of being able to gain admission to places other people aren't allowed in (...) True talent always sits in the shade, mingles with the crowd, avoids the limelight ... As Krylov said, the empty barrel makes more noise than the full one. (...)

7) If they do possess talent, they value it ... They take pride in it ... they know they have a responsibility to exert a civilizing influence on [others] rather than aimlessly hanging out with them. And they are fastidious in their habits. (...)

8) They work at developing their aesthetic sensibility ... Civilized people don't simply obey their baser instincts ... they require mens sana in corpore sano.

And so on. That's what civilized people are like ... Reading Pickwick and learning a speech from Faust by heart is not enough if your aim is to become a truly civilized person and not to sink below the level of your surroundings.

[From a letter to Nikolay Chekhov, March 1886]”
― Anton Chekhov, A Life in Letters

To have true morality a person has to believe in natural law (reality,not my opinion). Natural law (universal law): Don't do harm to others who have not harmed anyone. Because we are living in opposition of natural law and have government, society is destroyed. The world is completely twisted. There is no such thing as authority of man in nature. If people understood natural law they would see government for what it really is. Police/millitary are the problem with society. They are ones that carry out the immoral actions and keep the system of slavery in place. It's completely immoral to coerce, kidnap someone and throw them in a cage for just not paying taxes and not harming anyone for example.The psychopathic elites despise natural law and they are doing everything they can to make it unknown and brainwashing people to believe in government (authority/man's law) instead. This is how they control the world. They have a secret government behind visible government. Most people have been duped and brainwashed by the elites into believing that without police/millitary it would be chaos and because of this they actually support the initiation of violence,coercion,slavery on other people. Now if someone is being harmed they have every right to use as much force as necessary to take down attack up to including death (if necessary). That is not immoral. That is self defense. Peaceful anarchy society with rules and everyone learning natural law> Government
Government causes chaos. Harming people who have not harmed anyone causes lots of suffering in the world.
It's important to also have high consciousness. Here's a good video for raising consciousness (not mine) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYfoZ6d6O1I

Decency is acknowledging and taking responsibility for our actions, and treating other people properly - not necessarily kind, but not mean either. Showing proper respect, not lying, cheating. Doing our work, not bumming off others. Living a clean life.