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This theory would make sense if bribery were a practice only practiced by the rich. It is not. Even civil servants who are not being taxed disproportionately w
by yuliyp 9y ago
This theory would make sense if bribery were a practice only practiced by the rich.
It is not. Even civil servants who are not being taxed disproportionately would accept bribes, and even the poor would give them (as the benefit of the bribe outweighs the cost).
Unless your argument that it's the perception of being stolen from that would cause someone to be willing to engage in corruption. This feels nearly like a tautology. Everyone can find some way in which they feel victimized/punished by society (or rationalize their way into feeling such).
- alexryan 9y agoFair. I was referring to how corruption most probably "originates" in a system that is theoretically free of corruption. I suspect that you are absolutely correct that the perception of victimhood is the trigger which compels individuals to feel morally justified in violating moral systems. My intuition is that once the moral foundations of an institution have been corrupted, then the corruption tends to spread like a disease until the entire system collapses. The question that interests me is: How do we build a system which is resilient to corruption?