The fix for corruption is vote the bums out of office. It is not to go whole hog into blind application of the law.
Think about how hard it is to write code that has no bugs. Now imagine you're using English and working with a system with so many parameters and side effects that you can't possibly anticipate all eventualities.
And now you want to rigidly apply your operators to this parameter space?
Selective enforcement is necessary for justice, because no law is perfectly just, and selective enforcement helps move toward justice.
It unfortunately also means there is the eventuality of corruption. So you just have to keep vigilant. Because a rigid system with no selective enforcement has no fix for injustice other than "live with it."
> The fix for corruption is vote the bums out of office.
That doesn’t seem to be working.
I argue there’s an acceptable level of corruption, only the particular flavours change from time to time.
Come out of government better off than when you when in. Fine, good on ya. No need to tells us about how you’re going about it while you’re going about it.
Learn to be at least a little bit discreet, and at least do something occasionally that comes across as good for the average person.
Think about how hard it is to write code that has no bugs. Now imagine you're using English and working with a system with so many parameters and side effects that you can't possibly anticipate all eventualities.
And now you want to rigidly apply your operators to this parameter space?
Selective enforcement is necessary for justice, because no law is perfectly just, and selective enforcement helps move toward justice.
It unfortunately also means there is the eventuality of corruption. So you just have to keep vigilant. Because a rigid system with no selective enforcement has no fix for injustice other than "live with it."