Corruption- The other side- Hence, it happened.

The wide spread corruption and the commonness in its occurance puzzles a person as to how it could happen, when almost everyone desires a system with integrity. The process is easy, simple and swift and doesn’t come with a warning. As some people say below, it's a consequence of multiple circumstances. For once if we hear the explanations, here goes.

“I had to pay bribes to get into this position (not a pleasant experience). Once I was in, I was hesitant to do the same and worked, but when everyone was improving their lifestyle, how could I be stuck here? So I gradually started to take advantage. Now I don’t even bother to work hard. I just manage.”

“It was a momentary lapse. I was desperate then, and now it has become a habit. You know it is a hard thing to come out of.”

 “In the first 6 months I did not take bribes. But then, I did not find the whole point of what I was doing. It’s not that if I don’t take a bribe, it would make a big difference. We have gone too far from ideal. Everyone is corrupt.”

“I wasn’t corrupt at the start of my term. But then, everyone was pursuing unethical means. You know that it’s a competitive world, what do you expect?”

Is an explanation enough to justify the ends? The speakers explain corruption as an occurance he/she could not avoid. It happened as a normal event sparing some rational thinking to let it become a part of their life.

One of the saddest lessons is this: "If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” – Carl Sagan

Who is the bamboozled and who is the charlatan? Isn’t it both you blaming the other one?