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Old 03-26-2008, 11:32 AM   #25 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by abaya

An interesting flip-side to the question would be: Would you be willing to pay someone off in order to get what you wanted?... and again, not in the productive/labor exchange sense, but for something corrupt... For myself, I think the answer would again only be Yes if it would save someone's life or quality of life, that I cared about, especially in a developing country where corruption is a given thing. But I guess we're only talking about stuff in developed, Western countries, right?
The answer to this would be the same. Paying someone to do something that goes against your morals is still breaking your morals in an indirect way.
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