What is the effect of fighting evil with evil?

"Fighting evil with evil" can also fight corruption. Is morality a good medicine to eliminate corruption? There is no doubt that a good moral atmosphere will help to curb corruption. However, there is a paradox here: a large area of corruption in a society shows that the morality of this society has fallen; Morality has been corrupted, how to rely on morality to stop corruption? Just like a terminally ill person whose health has deteriorated to a very serious degree, you are still saying that the important issue is to be healthy, not to treat this person first. Isn't this psychosexuality? The problem here is that for a patient, health recovery and treatment are isomorphic. The disease can't be cured, so it's a bit boring to talk about the role of healthy physique. Of course, good health is good for resisting diseases, but that is the future. Let's wait until it's ready. Before this, moderate physical exercise will certainly help patients recover, but it is only an auxiliary role and cannot replace going to the hospital to take medicine and have an injection for surgery. Reflected in the role of morality, a good moral atmosphere will certainly help to curb corruption, at least reduce the intensity of corruption, but the fundamental problem is to operate in the institutional framework. If we do not adjust the power structure of society and put power in a cage, corruption will only become more and more serious. The relationship between morality and corruption has always been a topic that China people like to manipulate. However, after years of ups and downs and witnessing the increasingly rampant corruption, China people with a little brains understand that corruption cannot be subdued by morality alone. The fundamental reversal of the corruption trend depends on the reform of the system. The topic that Lao Jiang is going to talk about now is that the importance of the system lies not only in its ability to restrain corruption to a certain extent by balancing power, but also in its ability to set a good moral example for the society and purify the moral air of the society by restricting the possible evil deeds of those in power. But also can guide the evil of human nature, make the evil of morality a positive force, and make contributions to stopping power corruption. I thought of this topic because of something that happened in Japanese politics not long ago. Japan's foreign minister stepped down because of improper collection of political cash. One day I was drinking with a friend. He mentioned this and asked me how much money Maehara, who stepped down, "embezzled". I told him that Maehara did not "embezzle" or "take bribes". He just improperly received some political cash, which was not much, only more than 800 dollars. There is nothing wrong with accepting political cash, but the money he received belongs to a foreigner (Korean), which violates Japan's political cash law. If something similar happens to us, it's nothing at all. More than 800 dollars, and it was not a bribe, but it led to the resignation of a "provincial and ministerial cadre." Why? We can see that this kind of thing happens because the evil of human nature or morality plays a role in it, but this role is quite positive and positive for society. Specifically, Seiji Maehara was brought down by other malicious guys. These people include people from different factions within the ruling Democratic Party, mainly a group of politicians from the opposition party. The opposition party seized Seiji Maehara's incident, magnified it infinitely, and pursued him hard, not because it had any moral cleanliness, but to discredit the ruling party so that it could come to power as soon as possible. This kind of anti-corruption is actually "fighting evil with evil", confronting others' greed with one's own moral greed and knocking others down with morality in order to seek one's own political interests. Similar examples abound in democratic countries and regions. For example, Taiwan Province Province in China. Many politicians in Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan Province Province are greedy, and their greed for power and money is outrageous. During Democratic Progressive Party's reign, a large number of senior officials were imprisoned for corruption, and Chen Shui-bian was even more exemplary, becoming the first top leader in Taiwan Province Province to be imprisoned for corruption. However, after Democratic Progressive Party stepped down, he began to make a high-profile anti-corruption campaign, targeting at the ruling Kuomintang, especially Mr. Ma Ying. Democratic Progressive Party stared at Ma Ying IX in the wild, but his motives were dirty. He just tried his best to discredit Mr. Ma, let his reputation stink, let Mr. Ma step down early and put his own people on the throne of power. Their methods are not very authentic. They often go online indefinitely, grab braids at random, and even make rumors and plant them on Mr. Ma at random. Democratic Progressive Party's "supervision" of Ma Ying is not moral, but immoral. However, this immoral behavior is beneficial to society. At least, it further increases the difficulty of Ma Ying Nine Team abusing power, and also increases the iron lock to prevent those in power from corruption. This reminds me of Chinese mainland. We often have similar anti-corruption drama here, but they are similar in appearance, and the effect is to withdraw southward. Now we often hear a saying that a corrupt official is arrested because of a "political struggle" and the arrested person is a victim of the "political struggle". The "political struggle" here is to crack down on dissidents, and the way to crack down is to seize the corruption of opponents and overthrow them in the name of corruption. This is also a kind of "using evil to control evil", which directly leads to the downfall of so-and-so corrupt elements, but its social effect is unique: in a society with checks and balances of power, this kind of "using evil to control evil" follows the following institutional rules. Where there is no right restriction, there is power and the opposition is in power; And everyone is familiar with the "evil against evil", the powerful punish the powerless, and the powerful play tricks on others, just falling down one by one. The influence of entering a department is that people's "fighting evil with evil" is like adding a cage and tying an extra rope to those in power, which will only make those in power more convergent and more afraid of corruption; On our side, the signal of "fighting evil with evil" is how to stand in line. As long as you stand on the right side of the officialdom and choose the right backer, you can rest easy when you are corrupt. Corruption is also manifested in the form of teams. Nevertheless, Lao Jiang will still be pleased with the anti-corruption achievements we have made by "fighting evil with evil". Corrupt officials count one when they catch one. After all, it is a happy thing for ordinary people that a corrupt official is caught, no matter in what form, or whether he is a victim of "political struggle" at the same time. It is a happy event that the people are so happy.