Morals scarce Tango dance and ethics
as they say in the west, it takes two to tango. that is to say you need the consent of two to dance and it applies to many things in life.
i write this based on the words of a friend, and those traded on social media regarding the impact of members of a certain community or another on the status of corruption in kuwait, as well as how the rate of corruption increased years after the liberation and then reached its peak recently.
this may be true, but the spread of corruption is due mostly to the development and spread of social media means, which began to shed light on everything — with exaggerations here and there. these social media means were not available until a few years ago, thus, we feel we are in the middle of the sea of corruption, and this is not true.
for example, i personally do a lot of business or other transactions by phone or through a representative.
i do not encounter the usual bribery stories, however, it does not mean that they do not exist and are not widespread, but it is not that scary.
corruption is a shared responsibility between the administrator, oftentimes a citizen and the other party — the one who gives bribe, usually an expatriate, so it is wrong to blame one party and consider the other party — the kuwaiti — an angel.
the crimes of forging certificates, entry permits, trading in personal data, human trafficking or domestic laborers, forging health certificates and many others have been prevalent in kuwait for many years, and mostly, the main two parties are a citizen and a porter.
in the midst of all this chaos, facts and rumors about counterfeiters and holders of false certificates, and their number and presence in almost every sector, we have completely forgotten the issue or scandal of the distribution of agricultural holdings. their owners are smiling at our stupidity and some of them have a false doctorate degree.
are there expatriates in the case of agricultural holdings, or only kuwaitis are involved? we have also forgotten dozens of other scandals.
the problem is not in the falsification of nationality and educational certificates, not in impersonation, neither in livestock pens or destruction of the municipality, dual citizenship, affiliation or millions of deposits, but in our lack of interest in the core of the problem.
successive governments failed to make ethics an essential part of the educational curriculum, focusing on religious lessons and learning by heart. the majority became religious in appearance, but they lack morals.
as the government continues to ignore the importance of ethics in the school, home and society, the series of scandals will continue indefinitely.
