Archived Japan's lead TPP negotiator resigns his govt position due to corruption & bribery charges (bbc.com)
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Archived Japan's lead TPP negotiator resigns his govt position due to corruption & bribery charges (bbc.com)
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[–] greycloud 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
what is the difference between acceptable compensation and corruption? its a hard line to draw.
[–] jaceame 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Being detrimental. Taking money from someone that is trying to make the world a better place is still taking a bribe, but taking money from someone knowingly trying to do bad makes you terrible.
[–] greycloud 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
i agree, but at the same time i see another side. i try hard to see the other side so that i do not get too negative of an outlook on life and loose hope and sleep over stuff like this.
consider being in a leadership position. there are many people with conflicting interests, what is good and bad is often an opinion or is different depending on the position and circumstance it is seen from. (a man stealing food to feed his starving child from a shop is bad for the shop, good for the child, and is hard to gauge on a moral scale assuming this was the only option to feed the child).
i am opposed to the TPP passing. but i can see how some people would believe that it was the "right thing to do". there are many lines to be drawn to separate it as evil or good. there are many people involved and the actions of the TPP would have effects on non-member countries as well as member countries all of these countries having many groups of people with competing interests. i personally see it as class warfare and a fundamental loss of autonomy and value of wage labor, it is bad for the average working citizen of a western country (especially the US). at the same time however it is a good thing for countries like india, which have larger populations and could be said to be "the greater good".
so as for what is and what is not "detrimental" depends on goals, values, opinions, and circumstances. this dependency means that the idea of detrimental is a subjective term (based upon personal experience and opinion).
[–] Broc_Lia ago
There is no difference, behaviour like this is inherent to the function of representative democracy. They draw lines in the sand and say "well if you're on this side it's allowed," but it's all the same beach in reality.
[–] Mylon ago
It's a tightrope dance. If politicians are paid too little, crime fills the gap and takes over. If government is paid too much then the public suffers from that alone.
[–] Broc_Lia 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
If there is no government, and people can make their own decisions about how to spend their money, then there's no one to bribe.