October 14, 2012
Who is to censure for graft?
By Datin Halimah Mohd Said*@http://www.thesundaily.my
VERY couple of of us can profess to be scrupulously purify in all senses of a word physical, reliable or moral. In a single way or another, we've had to compromise a integrity however you choose to conclude a concept. Yes, couple of between us have been saints who can claim to be whiter than white.
For most, there might have been instances in a lives when you could not travel a true as well as narrow; there would have been occasions when you told a white distortion or angled an evidence to preserve assent as well as harmony. They contend each man or woman has a price, which is humans have been corruptible, if not in their bodies during least in their minds as well as hearts.
People perceive something as a law as well as will swear they have spoken a law as well as nothing less, but even in a court of law you know which this is open to interpretation. We might lay out a bare facts as well as evidence but their validity is interpretable by judges, lawyers as well as laymen alike. Beyond in accord with disbelief might be determined by authorised minds but a law over all doubts is a prerogative of a Almighty alone.
As succinctly expounded in a single theory of report exchnage as well as discernment Relevance (Sperber & Wilson 1986) a human thoughts has a biggest genius for interpreting a report it receives from a evident context opposite a huge believe repertoire embedded in its recesses.
The some-more report as well as believe it has, a some-more a intensity for understand as it tries to make cla! rity or cognise, mostly selecting a particular line of logic or reasoning. Even pure feeling submit is interpreted, hence "corrupted" by a mind.
An reason in cognitive terms is which either a thoughts processes report in genuine or delayed time, it is resourceful as well as foregrounds a understand which is many applicable to it, which will provide it with a many applicable meanings as well as implications.
On a communicators' side, they can designedly select what they think have been applicable as well as articulate it convincingly as a "truth". Among a professionals, lawyers take this mental flexibility seriously, making it their commercial operation to interpret a law in pursuit of their client's interests. Some, as you know, have literally gotten away with murder. Ordinary people have been some-more receptive to their personal perceptions as well as will argue for them, however lopsided a arguments might seem to others.
Simply put, faced with a vicissitude of life's demands as well as a crowd of variables in society, a intensity for self-interpretation is tremendous as well as some-more mostly than not overwhelms a search for fairer as well as some-more objective "truths", if not absolute truth. These days everybody seems to have an perspective about what they cruise as a truth, as well as a dogmatic between them infrequently succeed in brandishing it as God's truth.
For instance, interpretations of what constitute governmental crime have been as many as there have been crimes opposite society. Many cruise accepting bribes as a inhuman crime of crime which has far-reaching implications for society. They demand which a offenders be tried for their crimes as well as meted out due punishment.
The cheer is for a "big fish" in a public as well as private sectors to be held as well as made examples of, so which their smaller fishy subordinates in a organization will not dedicate similar acts. The oft-quoted case is where low-ranking military constables audaciously admit to r! eceiving bribes because they contend their superiors right up a ranks have been accepting bigger "ang pows" from a underworld.
Fair as well as logical logic provides an additional understand of temptation which there cannot be takers if there have been no givers in a initial place, so people who suggest bribes contingency be as liable to charge as those who accept them, no matter which party initiates a transaction.
The answers to a question of who is to censure as well as who is responsible in a war opposite crime contingency be prioritised lest it be turned in to an additional vicious round of finger-pointing. The large fish who takes huge bites of a temptation attract contingency be as in cold blood pursued as a little ones enjoying a smaller bites. The abuse of power by supervision officials as well as those they do commercial operation with during a responsibility of public seductiveness contingency be seen as governmental crime of a highest order.
Honesty, uprightness, ethics as well as probity have been between a virtues explicated in all religions as well as they contingency be prioritised over as well as above element development. It is a responsibility of each Malaysian to impregnate these values in their lives during home, in a organization as well as between a community.
Don't just point fingers during a authorities when things go awry or when crime becomes prevalent in a nation. Ask yourself who unequivocally have been to blame; who have been a genuine offenders? The anti-corruption war will succeed usually if you have been prepared to travel a true as well as narrow as well as quarrel corruption. This is an understand of a governmental "truth" which contingency be taken seriously.
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*Datin Halimah Mohd Said serves as Advisor to MACC as well as is President of Voices of Peace, Conscience as well as Reason Association.
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