Let's look at your move as an allegory. David, you just prayed about your move and the hope you feel being in a new place. But that wouldn't have been a good beginning in your new home. It's better that you took responsibility, and okay if you even went beyond the terms of the contract and did something that they didn't expect. Too many times you on the earth are so concerned about being used or, as you call it, being suckered by others.
Friendship is a place of investment beyond the contract, beyond any contract.
Your nation is a family of people where there must be investment beyond the law, beyond the basic dos and don'ts. That's what makes a strong nation. And when the nation loses that spirit, and then violates even its basic contracts, people become self-centered and untrusting and insecure. There is no doubt as I look. . . Yet, as much as it's possible that the process of corruption can be turned around in one life, it is certainly possible in a nation.