Augustus
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Which point? You slapped two completely different points together. In one you offered a rare event.
No. I offered a single example out of the millions of possibilities where 'doing the right thing' in order to get a 'pleasure reward' competes with other more selfish urges that also give a 'pleasure reward'.
You are quibbling a single example instead of addressing the very general point.
It's extremely hard to believe that honest people would find that working for a corrupt government in any country was "the best job available." However, let's assume your imagined facts are true. Why do you assume that working for a corrupt government makes good, honest people corrupt?
Living in such a country and experiencing it first hand makes me think that.
If it's hard for you to believe that this is the case then you are very naive. People adapt to their environment after all.
You seem unable to imagine that there is a world out there that differs from your own personal experience in a wealthy, Western country with a strong legal system and a decent level of accountability.
Most of the people in the world do not live in such a place.
There are always ways to sabotage corrupt governments just as anti-Nazi German civil servants sabotaged the corrupt practices of that regime whenever they could.
Ignoring the fact that most people aren't heroes and are not willing to go against the grain at great personal cost...
These aren't anything like 'the Nazis', many/most of the countries in question are the flawed democracies that tend to be the norm in the modern world outside of the West.