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Re:What science reveals about our tendency toward corruption by pessimizer on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @04:01PM (#42119682)
> Many people who would never steal money from an individual would happily steal money from the government.

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.

Re:What science reveals about our tendency toward corruption by Teever on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @09:55PM (#42122447)
'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
Re:What science reveals about our tendency toward corruption by lupire on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @10:19PM (#42122566)
What is morality but a simplified approximation of realpolitik?
Re:What science reveals about our tendency toward corruption by blitzar on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @07:22AM (#42125453)
Your morals are my profit.