Bribery
How would you define bribery?
Bribery is payment for a specific judgment.
Here are three examples:
A coach pays a referee to favor his team.
A lobbyist pays a congressman to vote for a bill.
A criminal pays a police officer to overlook his crimes.
It is, of course, legitimate to pay someone to serve as a judge, but if the cause of a judge’s conclusions is the desire for a financial reward, rather than logic, then those conclusions are untrustworthy.
Is the concept in any way distorted or badly applied today because of altruism?