Amid all the the show's vicious drug dealers, corrupt politicians and compromised cops, Omar is the only figure who adheres to a strict, if perverse, moral code.
In the industry's perverse social code, where appearances are everything, such private struggles are kept well hidden not only from public view but also within the industry itself.
She was conceived, Miss July informs us with withering relish, when Amity's boorish Scottish overseer thrust himself unwanted upon a field slave — a "rude act" that, according to the New World's perverse color code, gave her higher status than the children of long-established unions between slaves.
The education secretary has made what choice there is in education a complex Chinese puzzle of eight best: double weighted EBacc subjects with different codes that creates perverse incentives – all without seeking primary legislation, all without creating a new education bill scrutinised by parliament.
The selection process had myriad unwritten codes, some curious, many perverse.
Given the myriad inequities and perverse consequences embedded in the current tax code, it would seem an alluring opportunity for presidential candidates, and some of the Republicans have made tax policy a centerpiece of their campaigns.
"Introducing an allowance that lets families share some of their personal allowance would help tackle poverty and reduce the perverse disincentives created by our dysfunctional tax code".
Bombing a house in an attempt to gain morality points may seem perverse to you, but I guess that's the code these guys operate under.
Zhang's actions seem to spring not, like Visser's, from perverse, greedy corruption, but rather from adherence to a deep, unspoken code.
Not only is our tax code bad at raising money, it is also plagued with perverse incentives that, added up across the population, can push us to distort the economy and slow it down.
