Ethics, corruption, and bureaucracy

Abstract

Due to the constant reports of corruption in our country, ethics—a discipline once reserved only for philosophy—has become a common demand of our society.
Each human group, in its cultural and historical idiosyncrasy, shapes ethics into customs, ways of acting, and ways of being, which is what is known as morality.
The term "bureaucracy" has now become part of our everyday language, especially in reference to public organizations that make up the State, forgetting that it also applies to private enterprises.

Corruption relates to the act of corrupting, and etymologically, the word derives from the Latin cum–with and rumpere–to break, being synonymous with perverting, seducing, altering, spoiling, and/or bribing a regular established guideline.