Temptation vs Corruption.

Guess this post will be my first in talking about issues happening around us. For the start, I'll talk about corruption. This action can be considered happening perhaps every minute or hour throughout the day, in the whole nation. Be it in politics or with the law enforcement officers and so on. Malaysia so far for the past few years has been talking to eradicate or to cut down on corruption. Even though with campaigns being launched here and there as well as some arrests of some people. Personally, I don't seem to see much change. Slogans and campaigns that was set up and efforts to curb that is all down into the drain. Easily overrun by these two aspects which is greed and mindset.

To curb corruption is not only the government's job but it is also the citizen's job as well. If the citizens of Malaysia do not put in the effort to even cooperate with the government, whatever government that are being elected for 100% guarantee that the issue will never be solved. Mindset, people nowadays want the easy way out and do not want to have any troubles even though they know very very very well that whatever they are doing is wrong. Let's take the simple case of traffic summons. A speed trap, driver being caught speeding and stopped by police during a roadblock. Police officer asks what can be done driver just offers a sum of money and is being let off the hook. So who's at fault here? Most would say the traffic police who usually hints in wanting cash.

The main problem is that people do not want to acknowledge themselves at the fault which turns out to be the driver in that case. If the driver does not offer the cash to the police and if all drivers being caught for speeding or whatever law they broke they just take the summon as it is to me corruption for that will gradually go down. Is just like to eliminate the population of rats in the house is to block out all food available to the rats and their number will dwindle. If traffic offenders keep bribing the police how do you think that the police will stop asking for money?

Be it in normal traffic summons or politics it's the same thing altogether if the people just stop giving money just to get out of trouble. Which in other terms show they are "cowards" and do not want to face the punishment of breaking the law when they had the guts to break it in the first place.

Greed is also another issue which can eventually lead to continuous corruption. In the society today for sure majority feels that they have not enough. Mostly due to being materialistic. Without greed and the carnal nature of wanting more be it cash or some other material things, corruption can also be cut down. Money politics will soon come to an end. All in all it comes to the people in this nation who are willing to stand up to their moral values be it in whatever society or class they are at as long as they have a firm foundation in morality temptation will not come in so easily. The decision is the rakyat to choose. Are we going to stop corrupting each other for a better future?