Corruption includes attitudes, values and standards. Misalignment of those states is passed from more-corrupted persons to less-corrupted persons creating learned corruption.

Why would anyone want to learn corruption? There are psychological reinforcements involved. The promoters of corruption create influences through much cajoling. They lay on a heavy barrage of words and entertainment to make corruption feel good. They use activities and environments by setting up situations such as the drug culture, where you have to do what everyone else does.

Under those conditions, the attitudes, values and standards of sin are learned by example. Words generally cannot be used to promote sin, because too open of an exposure reveals sin as being wrong. Instead, sin is promoted subconsciously, where it evades the moral truth that awareness would create.

Selfishness is an example of an attitude that is learned that way. The instructor does selfish things, like bullying, boasting and stealing, and feigning to be a big winner who is successful and powerful. The dupes are supposed to learn that selfishness makes them successful and powerful.

Elitism is taught by synthesizing two categories of persons: winners and losers. The losers are usually not on the scene. They tend to be vulnerable, low class minorities who are easy to ridicule. The winners are those who entertain themselves ridiculing the losers. The dupes are supposed to learn that becoming a winner is as easy as finding losers to degrade.

Bigotry is taught by creating the impression that the perpetrators of sin are more worthy and virtuous than their victims. Scandalizing the victims is a standard method of creating that impression. The victims supposedly need to be sinned against because they are so corrupted, as lies about them indicate.

Hate is taught as a self-justification mechanism. It says that the victim is the cause of the problem, otherwise he wouldn't be hated. Hate is a method of accusing which is stripped of all accountability. No one ever explains why they hate someone.

Jealousy is taught by viewing anything constructive about opponents as threatening. If an opponent does anything right, alarm buttons are pushed creating the impression that there is a danger in it. Isn't an enemy more dangerous when better off? If so, then anything good or constructive about an enemy is threatening, which is the reaction of jealousy. The dupes are not supposed to notice that the enemy is synthetic and not quite so dangerous as the purveyors of corruption.

Power is the positive reinforcement of corruption. Corruption produces instant power, which is basically the power to destroy. Rationality would indicate that the net effect of corruption is not so desirable. But rationality does not prevail for two reasons. One, the reaction and positive reinforcement are fast. All psychological conditioning occurs within milliseconds of the event. Rationality, however, is slow and requires long term development of evidence.

The second reason why corruption overrides rationality is because of a lack of abstract understanding in the minds of the perpetrators. There is a direct link between abstract understanding and moral state. Whenever a corrupted person becomes aware of the price to himself for sin, the sin ends. So each corrupted person has his own moral level determined by his ability to understand the consequences of sin to himself.

Then there is a higher order to sin. All elements of corruption are interrelated, and they reinforce each other. The combined effect creates a machine that does what sin does. It destroys opponents allowing the victors to prevail against them and dominate them. It also destroys all life, but the extended effects are too abstract for corrupted persons to concern themselves with.

All sin requires more sin to reinforce it and justify it. For example, lies are used to degrade opponents and their realities. Reason must be eliminated to prevent the truth from being established. Knowledge must be opposed to stifle competing influences from opponents.

So corrupted persons exist in a sin world with its own methods and machines. All of its characteristics are in conflict with the world of life. Persons within the sin world are surrounded by an environment and set of demands which oppose constructivity and life.