Forum Post: What is corruption?
Posted 11 years ago on Jan. 31, 2013, 9:40 p.m. EST by FifeAndDrum
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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?
Corruption is the lacking of rule of law that isnt 100% widespread.
Corruption is a madness with very short life the end is just a we distance and this too shall pass away FREEDOM
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.
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.
Yes, I would say you have overused the word "corruption".