Mencius made it explicit that a true person cannot be corrupted by wealth, subdued by power, or affected by poverty.
This distinction does not rest on the untenable proposition that candidates cannot be corrupted by funds paid to and spent on their behalf by others.
Because a legally required, but morally unacceptable, institutional procedure — refusing to marry two consenting adults because they are from different race groups — cannot be corrupted.
A wall cannot be corrupted with bribes by coyotes or drug smugglers, nor can a wall rough up a detainee, mistakenly think that someone is carrying a gun or steal someone's cash.
If an error occurs, the encrypted fields are disabled, so that the data in them cannot be corrupted.
The Supreme Court majority, meanwhile, has essentially said that, by definition, campaign spending that is independent of the candidate cannot be corrupting.
They are—at least in part saying something else: that they feel the fix is in and ordinary voters are powerless in an economy run for the benefit of the rich and well-connected.Now, that does not mean that campaign donations cannot be corrupting.
If the reasoning about how the Icac Act defines corruption can be crystallised, the majority judges are saying that conduct by any person, whether or not a public official, cannot be corrupt unless some interaction adversely affected the exercise of official functions.
