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Should we have capital punishment for the corrupt public servants in chronically corrupt countries like India
Every time the subject of capital punishment comes up for debate, human rights organizations are up in arms.
Some countries are more corrupt than others not because their people are different, but because their systems are designed to facilitate corruption.
The people who build and fine tune this infrastructure of corruption are the public functionaries and hence need to be dealt with.
Common people generally follow the formal and informal systems and conventions that seem to be working. Germans killed 6 million Jews not because Germans are bad people but because the Nazis designed the system to eliminate Jews. Chinese killed tens of millions of their fellow citizens during Mao's tenure not because Chinese are violent people, but the system encouraged them to do so. The Russians under Stalin did even worse, not because of anything wrong with Russians but because the system was designed that way. Even the gentle Cambodians massacred hundreds of thousands under the Pol Pot regime.
Common people are not corrupt or honest. They just follow the system that works for them. The Indian system of corruption has been put in place by the main beneficiaries of the system. Unless these marauders can be deterred through legal changes, no one will dare to redesign the formal and informal systems.
May be time to take the gloves off and have a referendum on whether to have capital punishment for the architects of the corrupt system
Many will argue that capital punishment has not deterred people from committing murders. True. However everybody is not murdering everyone else. Societies can live with deviants. In the case of corruption, most of 50 million public servants are practicing blatant corruption or rather extortion. In fact many do not even understand that it is a real crime like murder or rape.
It is not possible to punish 50 million public servants. But it is very much possible to hang the designers and protectors of the system
Some countries are more corrupt than others not because their people are different, but because their systems are designed to facilitate corruption.
The people who build and fine tune this infrastructure of corruption are the public functionaries and hence need to be dealt with.
Common people generally follow the formal and informal systems and conventions that seem to be working. Germans killed 6 million Jews not because Germans are bad people but because the Nazis designed the system to eliminate Jews. Chinese killed tens of millions of their fellow citizens during Mao's tenure not because Chinese are violent people, but the system encouraged them to do so. The Russians under Stalin did even worse, not because of anything wrong with Russians but because the system was designed that way. Even the gentle Cambodians massacred hundreds of thousands under the Pol Pot regime.
Common people are not corrupt or honest. They just follow the system that works for them. The Indian system of corruption has been put in place by the main beneficiaries of the system. Unless these marauders can be deterred through legal changes, no one will dare to redesign the formal and informal systems.
May be time to take the gloves off and have a referendum on whether to have capital punishment for the architects of the corrupt system
Many will argue that capital punishment has not deterred people from committing murders. True. However everybody is not murdering everyone else. Societies can live with deviants. In the case of corruption, most of 50 million public servants are practicing blatant corruption or rather extortion. In fact many do not even understand that it is a real crime like murder or rape.
It is not possible to punish 50 million public servants. But it is very much possible to hang the designers and protectors of the system
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