Corruption is bad, lying with good intentions is context dependent bad, mistakes are OK. But if one is going to throw out the baby with the bath water at every instance of corruption/lying/mistake, you are not going to be left with much other than chaos.
Humans are fallible creatures, we have to work and improve with what we have.
The exceptionalism of the USA is the fact that most of its organization are open to criticism and repair. The FDA/CDC/USDA/DoT/EPA/etc and many other non governmental orgs are far from perfect, but they are pretty awesome compared to the alternatives around the world.
Corruption is bad, lying with good intentions is context dependent bad, mistakes are OK. But if one is going to throw out the baby with the bath water at every instance of corruption/lying/mistake, you are not going to be left with much other than chaos.
Humans are fallible creatures, we have to work and improve with what we have.
The exceptionalism of the USA is the fact that most of its organization are open to criticism and repair. The FDA/CDC/USDA/DoT/EPA/etc and many other non governmental orgs are far from perfect, but they are pretty awesome compared to the alternatives around the world.