Ah the &#x27;whatoubout&#x27; defence. Don&#x27;t bother addressing the issue of pervasive, ingrained corruption institutionalised into daily life in country X, &#x27;whatabout&#x27; speeding in Canada?<p>My wife is from a country with ingrained corruption and her sister&#x27;s husband is a police officer. Her cousin works at a notary&#x27;s office, an institution who&#x27;s only purpose is systematic corruption, and her husband narrowly escaped prison in a finance scandal at a company he ran through means that shall we say were less than ethical. Until you experience life in a place like that, you just can&#x27;t really imagine what it&#x27;s actually like.<p>There&#x27;s a world of difference between a country ruled by laws in which there is some corruption, and a country that is ruled by corruption in which there are some laws.