>>10255430One counter-example is when a person could do X or Y. Their duty is to decide on one or the other according to either set criteria, or in some cases randomly but fairly (equal chance). If I bribe said person to pick X instead of Y, it would be unfair to others who wanted them to pick Y instead but didn’t bribe the person.
In this example the only actual crime is the Bribery, as the person is still otherwise technically acting within the allowed limits of their job.
Bribery is by nature of being below the table and not official or formally regulatable, a form of corruption. And as such it breeds more corruption in turn the more normalized and tolerated it becomes.You really don’t want to live in a society where bribery is omnipresent and required to do even fundamental processes like getting a drivers license without having to wait years for them to get around to processing you. According to a sibling of mine who lived there for a summer, China is basically like that, and in addition to making day-to-day processes an unreliable mess, it’s just generally one of the main root causes for a lot of the disfunction in that country.
