Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Virginia Lt. Governor Fairfax Alleged to Have Sexually Assaulted Woman in 2004" video.

  1. Corruption is what makes govt work (to the degree govt can be said to "work"). A good analogy would be a car engine: without wide enough tolerances, which is to say, great enough error, built into the system, the engine can not run (when the tolerances are too tight), or runs very badly, inefficiently and unreliably (when the tolerances are too loose). Keeping corruption at a minimum, you'd have a govt corresponding to a high performance engine, with plenty of torque and horsepower available reliably; and it'll run a little hot. The problem is throwing the baby out with bathwater, so to speak: how do you ferret out the "good" corruption from the "bad" corruption, with an eye to eliminating only the bad? The answer: well, you can't. The distinction should be largely contextual...and mechanisms have a hard time grokking context. The same "corrupt" activity might be "good corruption" (in that it furthers the goals of "good govt") in a different context.
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