Not all old people will take the bribe? I have a friend who is in his eighties, he spent his life as a solider and in his psyche he is still a solider, sharp as an eagle, self contained plays by the rules, no under the table stuff with him. He’s a cap sun.

I don’t think I’d bribe someone. My head is swirling on this one.

For myself, depends on what I’m being bribed for and what kinda currency they got.

I was probably bribed as a child “Don’t tell your mother/father about this!”

I can understand being against offering/taking bribes in your professional life, cuz it’s unethical and you can lose your job. Or trying to bribe a cop or judge etc. But how about when you slip a $20 to the host at the fancy restaurant. That’s a bribe, because it ain’t a tip til after you’ve been served.

That said, I’ve never actually done it.

If I were going to pick a man, I would pick the most macho acting out of the group.

If I were going to pick a woman, I would pick the one with a chip on her shoulder.

It wouldn’t enter my mind to bribe someone with money in real life though.

Would i consider taking a bribe?
I might have twenty years ago, but not today.
I have learned a great many lessons, one of them being, skulduggery always backfires. Not pretty, not nice.

When I was married we moved house from France to Italy. I knew we wouldn’t get the furniture van through the border without a bribe and my ex totally mishandled it hahaha! The Italian border guys found some spurious reason to reject our paperwork and sent the whole van back. I’d specially chosen the removal firm because they were Italian immigrants and would know how to do it. Turned out they had the aged parents in the back, sitting in our armchairs – they’d wanted a free trip back to the old homeland

Disaster all round

Bear in mind, there are all sorts of bribes. It’s not just the envelope of cash under the table. It’s the office politics, where, for a little favor in the schoolyard politics, you shun or mistreat the “outsider.”

It’s in the office politics where you play a game of survivor and ally with someone stinky for the prize of being a winner. Anytime you sell ethics for even a little favoritism, it’s bribery. I mention office politics, because a whole lot of people look at the movies of heroic people during war who hid Jews or something, and say that would be them.

These are many of the same people who’d sell their co-workers up the river bearing false witness or something else unethical so they could win the Shark Tank reality show of their mind. To me, it’s not been so much age linked. I will say that younger people do not have many fictional heroes. Sure, comic-book mythical heroes. But not whistleblower heroes or heroes they want to be who did social change at a cost to themselves. People who give up the buck or the camera for ethics are termed schumcks in the reality show culture.

It would be soooo much better if we could just be able to tag these skanks by some visible category. But in the last few years, I’ve been slimed by olds as well as youngs. Slime is slime.