A little of historical digression will help us know that corruption is a global problem and started long time before the Babylons. Philosophers, thinkers and prophets warned people that corruption is a menace that kills people and destruct their societies. Socrates and his student Plato tried to create an utopia of corruption free society with philosopher-king as a ruler. Many European thinkers tried to teach people some moral codes that would train them to live without falling into the trap of materialistic hysteria that leads to corruption. Ethics, in the case of Cynicism, Epicureanism and the extreme version of Stoicism, teach an adherent to have self-control as he passes through the magnetic forces of demands.

Cynics think we should reject all types of government for us to reject corruption! If government is power then power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely! But this is logical fallacy from the cynical distorted assumptions. It is like saying: since penguins are black and whites and old televisions are also black and whites therefore penguins are televisions! The premises are sound but the conclusion is false.

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