Quote from: Asiska02 on October 18, 2022, 06:42:34 PM

However, I believe that if the problem of corruption can be addressed at a young age, every country's degree of corruption will significantly decline in the near future.

I bet no parent tells their children that corruption is good and I bet no one will kid ever read that corruption is good. The problem is that this is the nature of human, when you grow up, you start to understand and analyze thing, you understand that the world is not what you expected it to be, you'll understand that the only reason you were in center of attention was that you were a kid and you'll understand that life is very harsh if you are from poor family, you'll understand that everyone expects from you to work, get things done.
Then, you understand that money matters and it matters a lot because it can buy everything [I know you all will argue with me but you are welcome, I'll prove my words]. Then you understand that people will do everything to earn money easily. This is where you understand that if you throw away some money, you can do things easier. Now, you are welcome to the corrupt world.

Have you ever thought why we don't have anarchy? Because humans are social animals and humans will always form a bond, a collective team even in anarchy, then another group will form teams, everyone will form a team and finally we only have one winner, so, anarchy will turn into government, this is just inevitable, this example explains why corruption is inevitable.

Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on October 18, 2022, 07:12:48 PM

Hell, just look at all the drug prevention programs aimed at youth and how that's worked out. It doesn't work, because once you tap the pleasure center of the brain, a lot of people will want more of whatever did the tapping. Add to that youths' natural defiance of authority, and any preventative measures against drugs, corruption, or teenage pregnancy for that matter are doomed to fail.

When you are prescribed Adderall and someone comes and tells you that this is bad, it's hard to believe them, you know Cheesy

Well, the reason why drug prevention programs fail is that they don't tell you the truth. In school, once in a while we had a lecture about that and you know what, all they tell you is that drug usage causes death, it kills people and that's why it is bad. Rarely but sometimes they would add that drug usage cause depression but this part was mostly ignored but death was strongly highlighted. Youth don't care about it, you have to tell them truth: Drugs don't kill that easily, especially if they are pharma grade. What they do is that they mess with your psychology, destroy your brain's reward center and you don't feel a joy in life anymore, you have zero motivation, zero reason in your head to live or do something. They don't explain these details, they never talk about dopamine and serotonin, this is the real problem.