Honesty

Amidst all these scams in the country, I read a comment in a forum today that 5% of the population are corrupt, 5% are honest and 90% do not actually get a chance for corruption.

Well... and 41.63% of all statistics are just made up! Jokes apart, though I am not sure where from these numbers are coming, I do feel that at large, this is kinda true. But the question is if that 90% is also given a chance, will they take the bait?

Another question: does pocketing a few crores only qualify as corruption? What about jumping a traffic light or forging few bills to claim tax exemption or shelling out a few hundred bucks to that clerk to speed up that application of yours... list goes on.

Honesty is not doing the right thing because I know somebody will punish if I don't. That is doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. Honesty is doing the right thing even if I know nobody is watching - do the right thing for the right reasons.

I wonder what percentage of population will fall into this class?