Question Of The Day:- Bribes – Who Is To Blame, Giver or Receiver?

The giving of bribe involves two parties. The giver and the receiver. Most of the time the receiver is the one who is criticised because he is the one who makes the demand. But without the giver’s consent, the receiver cannot have his way.

Worldwide complaints are heard about politicians and public officials who accept bribes and enrich themselves privately at the expense of the common citizen. This may be at the expense of the employee and the employer; consumer and producer; renter and tenant; the one applying for a permit to do something, or asking exemption from an obligation to pay or to deliver a product or a service. All those cases may be considered to be abuse of power and authority for one’s own benefit.

Complainers forget that most payers benefit from that abuse of power and authority.

The other side of the coin shows payers assuming that their ‘gift’ to a politician or a public official, may in return deliver profitable preferential treatment or delivery.

Question 1. Do you support the opinion that it is wrong for people to bribe politicians and public officials, whereas, the other way round, they themselves bribing these officials for their own profit would not be wrong

People also often allege that those having authority in our society ask to be bribed or give us the opportunity to bribe. This means that the question ‘who is to blame’, shifts from the person who pays to the person who extorts and receives, on the ground of the allegation: ‘There’s no escaping from it, for if you don’t pay, you are bound to fall behind’

Question 2. Is it an easy way out of a personal problem for people to claim that they are not corrupt but that others force them to give bribes?

For instance, expatriates buy their licenses and claim that the authorities are corrupt!

Who Is To Blame For giving Bribes, Giver or Receiver?

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