fairlycrazy23
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Post by fairlycrazy23 on Feb 18, 2012 10:21:46 GMT -5
Who is worse the one that bribes or the one that accepts the bribe?
And should making a bribe even be illegal?
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billisonboard
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Post by billisonboard on Feb 18, 2012 10:28:17 GMT -5
I think the one who accepts the bribe is worse. We're all confronted with decisions to do either right or wrong and it's our responsibility to make the right choice. To consider the offering of a bribe is be confronted with a decision to do either right or wrong and it's our responsibility to make the right choice (to not offer the bribe). |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2012 10:37:50 GMT -5
I think bribery is illegal in a lot of cases.
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billisonboard
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Post by billisonboard on Feb 18, 2012 10:57:29 GMT -5
A Hobson's choice is a free choice in which only one option is offered. As a person may refuse to take that option, the choice is therefore between taking the option or not; "take it or leave it".
Hobson's choice is different from:
Dilemma: a choice between two or more options, none of which is attractive (including Sophie's choice, a choice between two persons or things that will result in the death or destruction of the person or thing not chosen)
False dilemma: only two choices are considered, when in fact there are others
Catch-22: a logical paradox arising from a situation in which an individual needs something that can only be acquired by not being in that very situation
Morton's fork, and a double bind: choices yield equivalent, often undesirable, results.
Blackmail and extortion: the choice between paying money (or some non-monetary good or deed) and suffering an unpleasant action
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson%27s_choice Hmmmm. Which does the OP fall under?  |
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ugonow
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Post by ugonow on Feb 18, 2012 10:57:46 GMT -5
Dependson how much we are talking about.  |
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Don Perignon
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Post by Don Perignon on Feb 18, 2012 15:15:47 GMT -5
Bribery can pretty insidious... as sometimes the bribe is delivered as a "donation" to an official's "favorite charity".
For example: Let's say you want a permit to expand your garage, and you need to obtain a variance from the Zoning Board of Appeals. The chairman of the board happens to be active in, let's say, the local battered women's shelter.
A $500 donation to the shelter thus guarantees that the board will be guided by the chairman to regard your application favorably...
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