[ExI] corruption

[William Flynn Wallace]

Transparency - yes, and a reply I forgot to make:  one study done by ???
showed that a lot of stuff not at all relating to national security was
made Top Secret by the Bush administration.  How do we stop them from doing
that?  And how do we stop them from making laws leaving back doors and
loopholes?  Or just quid pro quo: "It's pork."  "No. it's for the people of
my district (including my brother, wife, sons, etc.")  "I voted for your
museum of untied knots, didn't I?"  bill w

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 3:56 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* [ExI] corruption
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> >…This is not about politics per se.  It's about people.  Is it possible
> to have a government of any size without corruption?...
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> >…So let's find out how to elect people we can trust.   If they had a
> totally pure record of honesty etc., can we trust them? bill w
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> I agree.  Honesty is defined by the beholder.  Legality is defined by
> law.  I choose to use legal definitions only for this purpose, otherwise we
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> Your question leads to an important aspect of our now: transparency.
> Transparency is the enemy of corruption.
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