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That's a striking list because I feel like I could write a book about the corruption in the military, police, medical system, and religion. My philosophy is th
by user3939382 4y ago
That's a striking list because I feel like I could write a book about the corruption in the military, police, medical system, and religion.
My philosophy is that humans are individually all corruptible and corrupt to some degree, so when you compose a system from humans the system inherits those characteristics and there's no way to design policies which remedy that. I submit all of history to the present moment as proof that I'm correct.
- WalterSear 4y agoAnd all politics is either an argument about how to circumvent that, or that same corruption - manifested as an argument on how to circumvent that.
- twh270 4y agoThere's perception, desire, and actual performance. Maybe we want to believe in certain institutions (a little) more; maybe we perceive them to be more trustworthy because of what we (think we) know about them. I agree that humans are all corruptible, but strongly disagree that there's "no way" to design policies which remedy that. Corruption thrives when there is secrecy and a lack of accountability, and is reduced when there is transparency and where power is limited. We'll never be able to eliminate it, but we can reduce it by creating systems that increase transparency and prevent people from having unbridled power.
- user3939382 4y agoWe tried transparency and ended up with the FISA court.