While some people feel we should severely punish those found guilty of corruption, others feel we should focus more on educating people about the problems corruption creates.

Question

Red tape, corruption are ever-lasting problems that every countries strive to rule out. Surprisingly however, whether to crack down on corrution or to simply raise people's awareness is open to dispute. Admittedly, my guess is that we better off taking drastic measures other than just giving education.

Educating about problems brought about by corruption is a good idea as it raises awareness of all social spectrum, gives a second chance to guilty person turning over a new leaf, thus creating a more and more corruption-concious society.

In stark contrast, however, government should see to the simple fact that whether a person will be corrupted contingent on his conscience rather than the lesson he learnt. In fact, many prestigious leaders, definitely well-educated ones, were convicted of corruption, ended up overwhelmed with public round critism.

Therefore, clamping down on corruption not only sets a precedent for others to discern its seriousness, but also is the best method of education on the part of criminals. Another point is that corruption provokes public's anger about the society's inequality, thus nothing short of a fair judgement will assuage their demands of meritocracy.

In conclusion, in order to counter corruption, one country should assess the potentials of those two-sided ideas and although education is indispensable, it is definitely not enough in application to the rat race nowadays.