我非常赞同你的提倡廉洁。
我也同意文化的重要性。
可是我认为合理的约束规则更为重要和现实一些。规则要给遵守规则的人合理的生活空间。
曾国藩的部队的军饷都是欠着的,默认就是要攻入南京之后烧杀抢夺的。不然手下兄弟们早就都跑光了。曾自己可以清廉奉公,可是手下没人怎么打仗。
要是拿文化来类比,我觉得现在天朝是西方宗教改革以前的情况。教会左手戒律森严,右手大卖赎罪券。
抄一段我喜欢的名言:
All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.
Baruch de Spinoza 作者: 烟波钓徒 时间: 2013-6-29 01:18
还有一段也挺有意思的
The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free. Men in general are so constituted that there is nothing they will endure with so little patience as that views which they believe to be true should be counted crimes against the laws. ... Under such circumstances they do not think it disgraceful, but most honorable, to hold the laws in abhorrence, and to refrain from no action against the government.作者: 洗心 时间: 2013-6-29 02:14