Consider a medical doctor or an civil engineer who bribed their way into obtaining a professional diploma. Human lives are at stake. But the outcomes are lost lives. This kind of corruption, of course, is by far the most damaging. Concessions, licences, permits, assets privatized, tenders awarded are all subject to reallocation fees.
Corruption pervades daily life even in the prim and often hectoring countries of the West.
We are all corrupt to varying degrees. It is the kind of corruption whose evil outcomes outweigh its benefits that should be fought.