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A bribe happens. Who is more at fault - the person who offers the bribe, or the person who accepts? || Are you more afraid of corporations or your government?

Offers || Corporations
16.1%
Offers || Government
17.6%
Accepts || Corporations
18.4%
Accepts || Government
47.8%

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1:27 AM · Nov 25, 2019

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Alexander InvalidValue Cadeyrn

@InvalidDefiant

Nov 25, 2019

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@Aella_Girl

The person/s who made it likely to get away with it on either side. More afraid of Corporations still, although both were involved in this process. Not really willing to pick one of the options available in the poll right now because this + who cares about fault? I want it fixed.

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They all suck.

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Assuming this split holds up in a more rigorous sample, there is something critical here that I can't fully parse yet.

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a lot of these polls are asking how people think they'd behave and not how they'd behave. I don't have a better answer for how to use twitter to answer these questions, but I don't think you'll get answers this way.

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bribing to save a family member for a service is pretty tempting to accept

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There is still significant guilt on both sides; the briber for bringing into being the idea of the corrupt act, and the bribee, who beyond the general duty not to enable bribes, also has a obligation to their office that they're breaking.

@thylocene

Nov 25, 2019

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@Aella_Girl

They’re equally at fault and equally dangerous

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I’d say the one who initiated the bribe is the one more at fault. Government is infinitely worse than corporations.

Eason - @easoncxz@mastodon.online

@easoncxz

Nov 25, 2019

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@Aella_Girl

With your cooperations vs government thing, I think the answer is going to correlate highly to whether the country is largely neoliberal (fear coorp) or authoritarian (fear govt). Perhaps better to assume a country (eg US) and then ask.

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If you had said governments I would have chosen that but I trust "my government" more than corporations ultimately (but only ever so slightly).