Cat that steals piece of sausage will soon be called corrupt official

A corrupt official is a public servant who has misappropriated budget ("taxpayers'") money or has taken a bribe.

A collaborator is a citizen (civil servant or not) who cooperates with the enemy (Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code).

A marauder is a person who steals the belongings of the dead or wounded on the battlefield (Article 432 of the Criminal Code).

A person who is lazy, incapable, or uneducated is not automatically a corrupt, collaborator, or marauder. An official whose actions do not meet your ideas of the best public policy here and now is not automatically a corrupt official, a collaborator, or a looter. A corrupt official is not automatically a collaborator. A collaborator is not automatically a corrupt official. And none of them are marauders. A person who speaks the wrong language, listens to the wrong music, reads the wrong books is neither automatically a corrupt official nor a collaborator. Instead, corrupt officials and collaborators can be very active, educated, speak the right language and sing the right songs.

"By misusing words, we completely devalue them, blurring the line between unworthy behavior and crime. If we call everything a crime, then there are no crimes at all"

By misusing words, we completely devalue them, blurring the line between unworthy behavior and crime. If we call everything a crime, then there are no crimes at all.

It will come to the point where soon we will be calling a cat that stole a piece of sausage a corrupt official, a collaborator, and a looter in all seriousness.

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About the author. Valeriy Pekar, lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

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