There is a difference between paying someone to expedite a lengthy procedure and having a gun pointed at your head!
If you break one of their laws it's appropriate to pay a fixed fine. I don't see this as bribery at all it's natural JUSTICE.
Another aspect to this conversation is the fact that sometimes the amount of money being demanded / asked for is extremely small for Westerners. Personally I don't begrudge paying someone a bit over the odds just because I'm a (rich) Westerner. Often if you work it out you're only talking about a few miserly pence!
There is a HUGE difference between someone asking and an official demanding it and threatening to not complete his job role.
Although I never paid a bribe in Lagos, I often helped those less fortunate when it was right to do so....
It's a great pity that the New World Order (NWO) (capitalism) allows this situation to happen in the third world still.
I have found that the often dirt poor local people get the same treatment from these jumped up Nazis. The uniformed morons don't realise they are standing on top of the SAME pile of shit.  
I have found it's always the innocent dirt poor people who help out when you most need it....
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