A piece I wrote for an english essay

What is corruption?

Corruption may come in various forms such as the corruption of our language (spelling through errors); politically it’s the use of powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain.

It can also be described as the loss of purity and moral principles.

Is corruption a global problem? No, it’s a global changing process.

Corruption is happening. For example in the Middle Ages, Popes lived in luxury while teaching the word of God to the poor and religious. With there jewel decorated robes and magnificent palaces, many of them would be too happy to exploit their lives of luxury as an example to the unholy. Yet, this was all for private gain and the misuse of power.

Pope Innocent VIII was guilty of fathering children but because he was holy, the people dared not question him. Pope Innocent? Ironic.

Hitler was a master of mass corruption of how one thinks and sees live. Many people can still not differentiate between what Fuehrer Hitler told them to believe and what reality is. He was in many ways just like the pope except more demanding. In the end Hitler’s corruption pushed him over the edge and there was no alternative than to commit suicide. He‘s large ego and power that he gained through corrupting 61 countries and 1.7 billion people made him daring and dead. Of course he was corrupt but somebody needed to make the mistake in order for the world to see the truth.

For many the World War II was horrible, but I see not a global problem but a process of change. Without World War I woman would not be free to work. Without World War II we would not be equal. Although the process is long. This how it should be.

It is biologically proven that the world goes through certain vases. (The season change, the tectonic plate changes and so forth.) Thought many people die and the world goes through devastating periods (earth quakes) at the end of this change the result is positive.

Do we need to fight corruption? Absolutely. With all our might. But we shall be getting nowhere if everybody was good and had high standards with good morals.

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