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The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.
— John T. Noonan Jr.
The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.
In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.
Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.
