Corrupters are control freaks, because they are obsessed with domination. They draw the conclusion that if they could prevail against others, it would solve their problems. Failing to solve their problems through domination, they become obsessed with trying, just like gamblers become addicted to gambling due to their inability to win at it.

Stemming from the obsession to dominate are all corrupt attitudes including elitism, bigotry, selfishness, greed, jealousy, etc. While the labels are endless, such corrupt attitudes are all manifestations of the need to dominate. Any evidence of the betterment of others indicates that the dominator might fail to dominate, which is jealousy. Jealousy is a feeling of threat from the betterment of others. Greed is taking more than one needs to prevent others from getting it. Selfishness is the focus on self at the expense of others. Elitism is mongering power, which is needed to dominate, by seeking status and linking to other persons who have status. Bigotry is the assumption that power is virtue and powerlessness is corruption.

All of these attitudes create destructivity, and therefore they are called sin. Sin means that which destroys life. All significant sin is driven by stimulus-response reactions derived from the need to dominate and the related destructive attitudes.

Such reactions are the primary effect of corruption. There are also secondary effects due to the consequences. Everyone feels threatened by destructivity, which creates the expectation of a reaction to corruption. The expectation of a reaction creates a need for corrupters to conceal, deny or rationalize their corruption. The attempt to conceal, deny or rationalize corruption is somewhat visible, and it creates the objective test for corruption. In fact, the most significant consequence of corruption is the effect it has upon the perpetrators.

Over time, corruption causes reactions to develop in the minds of corrupters. A need develops to quell opposing forces. The most direct response is to demand support and threaten opponents. This quest results in a division between those who acquiesce and those who do not. Like-minded persons are viewed as good guys, and opponents are viewed as bad guys. This reaction does nothing more than split the mind of corrupters into two components: all that is viewed as supportive, and all that is viewed as threatening. The worst of it is that all that is corrupt is viewed as supportive and good, while all that is constructive is viewed as threatening and bad. The consequence is that corrupters acquire an inverted set of values, where truth, reason, morality and constructivity are viewed as bad and are opposed, while corruption is viewed as good and is supported.

Another consequence of corruption is the need to rationalize or justify the reactions in one's own mind by looking for enemies who must be the cause. Corrupters do not understand the forces in their own minds, and they actually assume that there must be enemies somewhere who are causing their problems. They find enemies to blame, and they are always removed from the scene far enough to be abstracted and fantasized. In other words, something like green Martians are blamed for the problems of corrupt persons. There is a perpetual war in the human society being fought by corrupters against illusive enemies for this reason. The label for the illusive enemies continually changes over time, while the war continues uninterruptedly.

The war of corrupt persons is actually fought against someone. The victims are always the lower classes or powerless and vulnerable persons. One reason is because the consequences of destructivity fall, first and foremost, upon the most vulnerable persons. Then the victims react, and they have little more than truth to react with, while truth is the ultimate defeat of corrupters. To oppose truth, corrupters fight an irrational war against their own victims, blaming the victims for their problems.

Because corrupters need to justify themselves, they contrive an image which is the opposite of the truth. They get showy and vocal in pretending to solve other peoples' problems, while their results are the opposite. They pretend to be do-gooders attacking injustices. But the injustices which they attack, just like their fantasized enemies, must be abstractions unrelated to reality, while the specifics are the opposite. It's important to recognize the difference between the do-gooding which is designed to conceal the opposite and the type of results which actually solve problems.

A very important thing to know about corruption is it's promotion of "utilitarianism". This is the assumption that even though truth might be truth, it isn't practical. Supposedly, fraud and sin must override truth and justice for practical reasons. Corrupters cling to this error, because it is another mechanism for warding off opposing forces. All of the truth and justice of the universe can be flushed down the drain as being impractical; and therefore, corrupters don't need to listen to critics or produce rationality. Where constructive persons are trying to make rational arguments, the whole effort is trumped by the supposed need to be practical. The worst of it is, corruptions of this sort are easily passed onto unwary persons who should know better but don't understand the abstractions well enough to see through the fraud.