Corruzione, etica e democrazia

Abstract

The immoral and undemocratic aspect of corruption is on the global stage. Corruption is an insidious evil. It threatens human beings, law, democracy, and rights. It overturns lives, communities, and markets. It feeds crime and terrorism. Ethics and democracy are engaged against corruption, but their relationship is not linear. In fact the “external” threat of corruption towards democracy is soon joined by an “internal” threat: the corruption of the democracy itself. These two aspects must be kept together. Ethic seems almost puzzled. The Ethical Codes betray now the difficulties by raising the no to corruption initially reserved for wrong behavior. Since corruption is related to freedom, nothing is corrupted forever. In a human world corruption does not “happen” in the same way as certain climatic conditions, such as thunderstorm occurs in nature, but “it’s done” as evil and incitement to evil. That means that you corrupt and you let yourself be corrupted. Democracy, on its part, does not emphasize enough on that corruption and oppression go hand in hand and they are spies of each other. When, we are driven by continuous criminal and media emergencies, we tend to polarize the attention on corruption leaving the oppression in brackets –always assuming it is unintentional. We must harbor no illusions. It is impossible to fight against corruption without denouncing oppression and re-launching alternative projects of democracy, which is born and lives every day in the rejection of oppression and corruption.