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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (34845)5/17/2008 12:42:42 PM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 217752
 
If one has read Europe's history, he'd now that people's morality in the feudal time, was akin to the morality prevailing inside a modern prison.

You would morph yourself into anything to avoid being crushed. You would do anything to get a favor. And you would behave always in ways to avoid pain and gain advantage.

Closer example: the USSR. Under communism one would have to walk the line. Not think. And do whatever necessary to get the advantages the system provided to you.

Going against the grain was surely recipe for suffering. That also created a morality that was adapted to that system.

What has this to do with more money makes more people honest, an uncultured person would be asking by them.

A lot. Or everything. Because scarcity breeds dishonesty, Plenty breeds honesty. That's why civil servants and spies are well paid.

It doesn't mean they won't sell themselves. They do. Only that the price is very high, thus limiting the corruption. Therefore more affluent societies tend to be less corrupt than dirty poor ones.

What happens when there is economic depression? Crimes increase. Why are the Scandinavians less corrupt? A uncultured person like MQ would say: DNA.

Nope. Equality.

now tell please those guys to go get some culture before they come to my thread.

By the way read the thread subject: This Thread must fight easy conclusions
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