As lacking respect as begging may be, it is more honourable than borrowing something and not intending to return it, or asking for something in exchange for influence or as an inducement to do what you're paid to do.
Unfortunately, our society has succeeded in making the unlawful so lawful that the crime of stealing is confined to the act of entering someone else's premises with the intent to steal, and even that, the severity of the repercussion depends on the doer's family standing and likeability.
Thanks to ignorance, poverty or perhaps selfishness, society doesn't even bother to make earnest inquisition as to finding out how wantonly the wealth of the ordinary person is being devoured by those paid to serve them. The way we see it, those greases to the palms are sweets that come with the jobs they do, and we will be jealous to say it is unlawful. How poetic!?
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