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Is Corruption the Only Cause of a Country's Failure?

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If you are not corrupt then you have failed. :(

Side: affirmative

Why is everyone only talking about corruption.. every country had corruption, deal with it

Side: affirmative

Depends on how you define the failure of a country.

And I think you have to get pretty narrow-minded to only have one cause.

Side: negative
Amritangshu(892) Clarified
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Well if I say political failure, then would it be the only cause ?

Side: affirmative
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It might be, but I mean, there could be plenty of other reasons why a political system would collapse. Ineptitude, for example, which is different from corruption. Or perhaps a lack of resources, or support. Or power.

Side: negative
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We are now experiencing a political failure due almost entirely to errant ideology rather than the usual corruption. But I get what your saying,!power corrupts all but the strongest of leaders.

Side: negative
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Oh come now DaveR, let us not pretend that one side is entirely at fault. We both know better than that, so the rhetoric serves no good. Political corruption is rooted deep in both parties and has led to a vast number of our current problems in extremely direct ways.

Side: affirmative
daver(1771) Clarified
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Yes I agree. However the major portion of our current political paralysis and failed foreign policy and rising debt is on the hands of Obama.

He has been a political divider rather than the uninterested we all hoped for. He has encouraged and emboldened our enemies, while mystifying, confusing, betraying and frightening our allies. He will have more than doubled our national debt in only eight years. These facts are more devastating than any corruption we have yet experienced.

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The answer would depend on how we define failure.

Different parties in this situation can have directly opposite definitions.

If a country has a government that supports corruption, then according to the politicians in power, the country's "failure" is their huge success.

On the other hand, if that country somehow manages to actually defeat systemic corruption, said politicians would consider it a "failure".

Side: negative