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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
If I had sent you $1 to vote for McClintock, would that have been a bribe?
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If I accepted $1 million from Saddam to stop the US invasion, and then argued publicly that the invasion must be stopped on moral grounds while denying any financial link, would that be honorable?
(I know, I know - direct financial reward for taking a stand cannot be used as evidence of the motivation of that stand, because that would be an assertion of "bias", the relevance of which you do not recognize.)