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Forum Post: What is corruption?

Posted 11 years ago on Jan. 31, 2013, 9:40 p.m. EST by FifeAndDrum (8)
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If you don't win a game or if things don't go your way, is that corruption?

If an outcome has nothing to do with dishonesty, but a trade has taken place and there are winners and losers, is that corruption?

Is everything in life fair and even? If not, is that corruption?

Is the word corruption overused?

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[-] 1 points by OTP (-203) from Tampa, FL 11 years ago

Corruption is the lacking of rule of law that isnt 100% widespread.

[-] 1 points by peacehurricane (293) 11 years ago

Corruption is a madness with very short life the end is just a we distance and this too shall pass away FREEDOM

[-] 1 points by Theeighthpieceuv8 (-32) from Seven Sisters, Wales 11 years ago

I think you need to rephrase the question; the question you truly ask here is this: What is "right"? Many would argue the moralist is a fictionalist; that all such standards are wholly imaginary and arbitrary. But they ignore the fine points here - we are evolutionary creations which possess an emotional armory intended to promote our survival - what we sense as corrupt is the violation of those standards which we have created in an effort to peacefully ensure our survival, a perceived to be threat.

These are the most corrupt federal politicians our country has ever encountered.

[-] 1 points by Shule (2638) 11 years ago

Interesting how people understand a word differently. In many countries around the world what is called corruption, we here in the U.S.A. call it business.

Ask an Indian.

[-] 0 points by Shayneh (-482) 11 years ago

Yes, I would say you have overused the word "corruption".