Last year, immediately after the Lunar New Year, two top civil servants got charged for corruption, in the famous sex-for-corruption cases that has been on-going for the past year. Due to this, more people were arrested for trading sex for various favours. I seriously wonder what the younger generation are thinking of right now? They can just talk about sex and use it so freely just like that.
In any case, now that a new Lunar New Year has come and gone, the verdict of the more famous trial is out. And he is NOT GUILTY! As in, he did have an affair, but he did not give the lady favours in return for sex. Hence, he is not guilty of corruption, but morally he is wrong.
This is going to spark off controversy. I believe objectively, many people will be happy that he is let off scot free, because the corruption officer did use some underhanded ways to extract information from the lady, who claimed they had sex and that he would buy her products if she gave him sex. Seems like even the corruption officer is corrupt himself!
However, due to this, does it mean that anyone can go around having affairs, and behave loosely as they think they can now get off scot free and that the judge will listen to the man but not the woman? If that is the case, then the world is going to be a very sad place to live in, if it is not already the case!
Personally, I do believe the law is just, and if the corruption officer did not screw things up, the plaintiff could have been charged for corruption and sex-for-bribes. But then one's moral issues is not the same as legal issues. Under the law, he did not do anything wrong, but morally, and perhaps in the eyes of God, he did mess up big time.
That is always the thin line here, whether you do things morally wrong and legally wrong, and often than not, people tend to tread a fine line between these.
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