On Corruption

[Dubayoo]

Say someone commits a crime or tort against another, but authorities are corrupt such that the crime or tort isn't punished.  

In turn, the victim retaliates by committing a crime or tort back.  The corrupt authority selectively punishes the retaliator while ignoring the instigator.  The instigator might even go so far as to counter-retaliate and claim provocation which the corrupt authority tolerates.

Over time, this creates a precedent.  The victims of these initial crimes and torts become whittled out.  However, due to the diversity of emotions in society, corruption ends up diverging rather than converging.  That is different authorities are negligent towards different instigators.  The result is a crime war where people are deliberately meta-politicking society to persuade authorities to be negligent in their favor so they can get away with committing crimes against others behind the threat of counter-retaliation.

Over the long-term, how is this society supposed to be sustainable nevermind prosperous?

[Caecus]

We have already. You only need to look at police brutality. And look! The sky isn't falling. GDP growth is at 3% (Sad!), the housing market is rebounding, and our economy and status in the world is so comfortably secure that we thought it was time to mix things up and elect a sentient bag of oranges to spice up life. 

This question has already been answered by reality. 

[Dubayoo]

On 7/30/2017 at 6:22 PM, Caecus said:

We have already. You only need to look at police brutality. And look! The sky isn't falling. GDP growth is at 3% (Sad!), the housing market is rebounding, and our economy and status in the world is so comfortably secure that we thought it was time to mix things up and elect a sentient bag of oranges to spice up life. 

This question has already been answered by reality. 

Perhaps, but I'm asking how it happens, not whether it happens or not.

[Ogaden]

Corruption happens everywhere and is rife in our society, but has largely been legalized as lobbying or patronage.  The reward phase of public life has been sufficiently separated from the working phase and anonymized through political action committee donations and non profit board positions that out and out corruption and nepotism are everyday parts of American life, from the city council level all the way up to the speaking tours of former presidents.

[ComradeMilton]

It just seems to attract to sadists or hateful people or whatever and then using their authority to roleplay beliefs with so few penalties ever meted out to officers who literally force people to die. CBP forcing a suspected smuggler of methamphetamines in a liquid and very concentrated solution to keep taking sips until he dies. Watching a jailed prison vomit blood until death. Torturing people with tasers and as pain compliance devices rather than another step in the permitted way the police conduct themselves. Casually shooting searched prisoners in handcuffs behind their backs lying on the ground and just firing two or three shots into his back kno to kill him. Random cops in cars leaving the dashcam and audio recorded as they decide which people to run down with their car. There's just tons of this shit.