What we really want is to create incentives against corruption. If a public servant asks you for a bribe, it should be legal to pay it. You are then in the cl

What we really want is to create incentives against corruption. If a public servant asks you for a bribe, it should be legal to pay it. You are then in the clear to turn around and report them. But making both parties equally guilty leads to the initiator having power over the other. When that happens, neither want to disclose except as part of mutual assured destruction.