A new Moral Equivalency Exchange. You too can buy and sell your corruption offsets. If you get a little too much sunshine trying to disinfect your bad behavior with transparency and exposure – just promise to recycle your political rhetoric and sell your credits.

This may suffer a delay as the chief supporter of this “slap & tickle” tax, Rep Massa – recently resigned his seat.

How’s the cancer? You doing ok, pal?

So many cheating on their spouses, as many strip joints as churches in the mid-lands, preachers caught with the hand in the till, evading taxes or snorting cocaine of the buttocks of male prostitutes.

Moral balancing needs the perception of doing something morale, before people do something selfish has been known about for a very long time. Papal indulgences anyone? The whole of Islamic thought?

From the last lines of the article

Dieter Frey, a social psychologist at the University of Munich, said the findings fitted patterns of human behaviour. “At the moment in which you have proven your credentials in a particular area, you tend to allow yourself to stray elsewhere,” he said.

This is a non story, unless you have not figured out by now, that most people are selfish.