If you're going to comment, make it substantiative. Arguing over the definitions of words, and not the underlying phenomenon, is the opposite of that. If "corr

If you're going to comment, make it substantiative. Arguing over the definitions of words, and not the underlying phenomenon, is the opposite of that. If "corruption", as you prefer to call it, leads to selection pressures and selects for those most "fit" in the arts of corruption, then "evolutionary pressure" is a perfectly adequate metaphor, and likely helpful for analyzing the situation. On a related note, the knee-jerk application of moral terminology rather than clear analysis to government issues is one of the principal hacks that corrupt bureaucracies use to perpetuate themselves.