The best way to solve the whole puzzle of corruption is to sanitise the value system and redefine it to fit the behavioural and cultural absurdities within our society that cleanse and uphold it.
It would be easy to talk about what fuels corruption (that's greed and need, among others) but we forget to mention what sires it; which, to me, remains and will remain the rotten value system. If you bribe your daughter to stop crying, is that need or greed? If you lie to be affirmed, is that greed or need? I don't know.
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