Difference between incentive and bribe

An incentive encourages the performance of something good; a bribe encourages the performance of something evil. As stated below, an incentive is usually out in the open while a bribe is secret.

A bribe is usually offered when a person has already refused to do it. It is a reward for not agreeing in the first place. This should not be construed to mean an act a person has not yet considered or when a further inducement is added.

When both condition are met, you have a bribe. So, a person has the option of doing evil but chooses good, is then offered some consideration and then chooses evil. Another example would be a person who sees or discovers some future reward in doing evil, so decides to do evil.

An example might be a politician who chooses to support illegal aliens over legal citizens under the belief that once these illegals obtain the right to vote they will vote for him.

Leaking national security secrets

National security information that is kept secret is meant to create fear among those whom the secret is being kept from. For us, as US citizens, the information isn't as much secret as private, as the private (to us) information is not intended instill fear into us, but quite the opposite. As US citizens, we want our government to be able to maintain fear in our enemies. In addition, this information might enable our government to use violence more selectively, to protect our citizens better, and to bribe those who oppose us to provide us with information and cooperation. For that reason, it is good to keep this private from us citizens, lest we inadvertently divulge secrets to our enemies.

Thus, leaking of our secruity secrets harms US citizens.

If it could be proven that the US government was keeping secrets about US citizens with a plan to use this information in the service of entities that have bribed or coerced our government to no longer serve us alone, then we would have a different scenario indeed!

In summary, the leaking of national security secrets is clearly evil until and unless proven otherwise, and if so, then the government itself would need to be purged of evildoers.

Welcome to my blog

In this blog, I will attempt to bring to your attention evil in the world. You might ask "What is evil? Isn't evil in the eye of the beholder? Isn't evil just what you see from your point of view? Isn't the entire purpose of this blog bogus? Won't it just reflect one viewpoint over another?"

I could declare myself ruler of the world and say that whatever pleases me, no matter how depraved you might see it to be, is good and if it doesn't please me, not matter how noble you view it to be, it is evil.

I will not take that tact. I will give you ground rules by which you can understand how I will look for evil to shine light upon. You can tell evil by it's desire for power over you, for its use of secrecy, for its instillation of fear and its use of violence, for its use of force and bribery, for its corruption of the goals and dignity of good people, for its pitting of one good person against another.

Why shine light on evil? It is because I believe that the one thing evil most fears is light. It is being out in the open where people of good will, who vastly outnumber those committed to evil, will be disgusted. If something is good, it needs no secrecy in the long term, and little in the short term. Evil thrives on secrecy.

If you happen upon this blog and have any ideas, any evils that need exposed, please comment!

So, let the light shine!