Weak Solutions For Government Corruption

For the current problem is not that there are not enough rules and laws to prevent corrupt behaviour.

Plato's central point is that if the people who apply the laws are corrupt then passing more laws will not solve the problem, because these corrupt people will apply the new laws corruptly.

" Plato is here alluding to his "Virtue ethics," the view that the foundation of any moral society is not rules or laws but a virtuous character.

Although one need not adopt the specific details of Plato's system today, his general point is that if a society does not develop a foundation of virtue in the population no new rules, laws, theories, or classes to teach morality will solve the social ills.

The character of the citizens is more determinative than the rules or laws that bind them.

For such new rules and laws are just band-aids pasted over social problems to conceal them.

Crenshaw's solutions, more vetting and more rules and laws, will not solve the fundamental problem. 

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