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== Morally neutral == This technical definition of corruption is largely stripped of moral judgement, unlike its use in common speech. Sometimes temporary corruption is necessary to move a DAO out of an [[wikipedia:Energy_landscape|energetic local minimum]]. For instance, to satisfy a minority of the group, a DAO may make a temporary concession that benefits the minority at the expense of the majority in order to maintain the membership of the DAO in the long run. That type of technical corruption may be necessary to correct a past grievance or to entice a new subgroup to join a DAO. Corruption, like friction, is sometime necessary in any system. When we discuss human organizations abstractly, we ignore—temporarily—values and ethics. In that case we remove concern for right and wrong. We discipline our minds to analyze logically, bloodlessly, the pure theoretical principles and categories involved. We often try to emulate physics or mathematics in discussing abstract organizations. In that case, we don’t think of corruption or oppression as bad, but merely as an inevitable aspect of the system we are studying. We wish to minimize corruption, solely to optimize efficiency or the achievement of a formal goal. This is dangerous, since our ultimate purpose is to benefit humanity. So ignoring human value—even temporarily—threatens our entire effort. Nevertheless by exploring ideas abstractly we can clearly see universal aspects of the concepts that are not obvious when we are clouded by present, local concerns. For example, viewing corruption and oppression as inverse concepts, we can see how individual freedom (as a positive opposite to group oppression) is related to corruption, and that justice (as a positive opposite of corruption) is related to oppression. Whenever we combat corruption, we create the tools of oppression. And whenever we fight oppression, by dismantling the tools of oppression, we simultaneously open the system to corruption. Seen in cardinal group terms, oppression is an aspect of group or majority action, while corruption is more closely related to individual or minority action. Seen from this higher perspective, we become conscious of the dangers of ignoring the effects of our actions when trying to eliminate corruption or oppression. Minimizing both may require some amount of toleration of both. Above all, it is necessary for the majority of members of a group to seek to avoid both corruption and oppression. This is achieved by seeking to serve the majority when you are part of the minority, and to serve the minority when you are part of the majority. Any group/system will collapse if its members/participants do not enact such behavior a majority of the time<ref>''Majority of members'' and ''majority of time'', here are defined relative to the excess energy in the environment. For example, if the group is struggling to exist with little surplus, they are required to be more vigilant against corruption and oppression.</ref>, since corruption and oppression proliferate as successful local strategies in a [[wikipedia:Game_theory|game]] when they are not actively suppressed.
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