Smoking is forbidden in several places, but then again if there's a community of smoker smoking in the same place that actually is forbidden, are they breaking the law?Crossing the street is ought to do at the zebra cross or pedestrian overhead bridge, but if everyone is crossing at any place on the street, are they breaking the law?
Eating inside the MRT is forbidden and could be fined by the law, but if other people doesn't care about that and take no action, are those an act of law breaking?
Yeah of course they are!
but the question remain is that, "Who's going to catch them?"
Ash from the Pokemon series with the tagline, "Gotta catch them all"...?
More often in my experience, at the corner there are some police who do the same act of law breaking. So what is law and how it could happen. It might sound so scientific but no, I'm not a bachelor of law and I'm no lawyer either. But this is just a perspective of a man who's dreaming that someday in the future he can be a President. Hahahaha....
I think Law is a collective agreement that made by several people. In some places it was made by the Legislative part of the government. They were the one that should be the representative of the voice of all the people of a nation. But then again, are they really? it just like Statistic, they are just a sample of a nation. Now are those sample really is representing the whole population? the question remain a mystery.
Law is a consensus, so if a group of people do the same act of law breaking, they are collectively breaking a law. If they can do that secretively, then there's a very big chance that they can avoid being punished. There are officer of the law, but they are no God and they don't have an all around eye that can actually watch every move we made.
This is why corruption can grow so fast and hard to control. If a person is corrupting, then another person can report him/her to the officer of the law. The problems nowadays are that this corruption act is done by a group of people. So who will know now? Can we actually count on the Police on this issue? I don't think so.
In the old days, a person is doing an act of corruption and he does that individually without sharing it to his superior or peer. Then his superior or peer know about it, the only reasonable act for them is to report that person. Now it all has evolved. When you do an act of corruption, you have to involved your superior and peer, so they know and have a shared investment on the act of corruption and they will be simply silenced.
That is why the act of corruption is hard to cope with. This action is involving to many people and they are all in consensus to break the law. Doesn't matter the reason behind the act, but an act of law breaking is a breaking of the law itself and has to be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of applicable laws.
How to break this?
It actually simple but so hard. You just need to break the consensus among the group. You don't need all of them to confess, you just need one. Just one honest people that can resist a temptation of bribe money. That's simple right? But the problem now is, to find that one person.
That person actually doesn't have to be an honest person, they can also come from the heart-ache person from the group that got an unfair share. They can also break down and report the act of corruption. Which this kind of source is harder to find.
I'm not saying that finding an honest person is easier, but an act of corruption can form a group basically because of an consensus and every person already know his/her share on the result of the corruption act. So this heart-ache person is sometimes comes out of luck and surely we can't depend on that.
Now, let me tell you a story.
There's a civil servant, working with monthly salary let say around S$2,000 where his friend with the same degree of education but working in a private area can earn triple. At one faithful day, a person offer him a bribe in amount of S$100,000 in order to make his path easier in taking care of some matters.
This honest man is ready to report the man, but suddenly he got a call from his wife, telling that his son just got hit by a car when he's playing around and she's gonna need money for the hospital treatment.
This man is thinking hard, living in Singapore with only S$2,000 a month is hard enough. Now he can get 50 months of salary in one simple moment and his son right now needs a big amount of money where he's barely has any saving account left in the bank.
Now, based on this dilemma of the story, what would you think that honest man will do?
Well, it's not that I take the side of a corruptor, but for every action there must be a cause behind it. To cope with the result of an action, we must first understand the cause.
Sometimes, the system that creates an honest man into a corrupt man. Salary level can be a factor of people doing corruption. But then again, when civil servant got a raise, a nation complaint because it's their tax that paid the salary of the civil servants. Where in the private area, the salary can be double even triple.
The constraint of rising the salary is always the Budget of the Nation. Money can't buy us happiness but I'm sure it can buy everything else including the honesty of a man.
Now back to the topic of Only Need One Person To Break a Group of Corrupt People, How to simply do this? The first step is actually will seems unfair, That is Increase the salary of the top management first. If the boss is adequate in terms of salary and he's not a greed person, he can be the pillar of anti-corruption in a department.
At first, it might cause some kind of jealousy and a big salary gap. But in the future once the corruption has been able to tackled, we can start to gradually rise the salary from top to bottom.
Maybe I do live in my ideal world and still thinking that it actually need only one honest person to tackle even the biggest corruption case. This is actually the act that can be done by yourself. So for those outside whom ever think, "I'm just a person in this big and corrupt world, what can I do?"
Now you've found your answer...
Are you involved in a project in your office?
Are you know an act of corruption is happen around you?
Be that "ONE PERSON" to break the collective act of corruption...
Are you ready....?
BLOW THE WHISTLE!!!!!
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