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Bribes (1984)
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The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.
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Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.
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In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.
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A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
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John T. Noonan, Jr.
Born:
October 24, 1926
Died:
April 17, 2017
(aged 90)
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