Re:What science reveals about our tendency toward corruption
by Teever on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @09:55PM
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'To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.' -- Abbie Hoffman
It's always said something to me that most people who wouldn't dream of making a profit selling something to a member of their family will spend all day trying to profit off of strangers.
It may just be a matter of proximity, with a instinctual heuristic of shared interests. Rather than people making a division of governments between "good" and "evil", it's more like a government that's with me or against me. I don't want to hurt what's helping me. Which honestly takes it completely out of the range of morality, and back into realpolitik and pragmatism.