The slippery slope that often causes generally principled people to slide into unethical behavior.
Although we have all come to understand that the Fraudster in Chief has no internal ethics compass to begin with, it seems more likely that many of the lifelong public servants who wound up in his thugsphere fell victim to what philosopher Jonathan Glover describes as the following process: “Incrementalism is how we slide into participation by imperceptible degrees so there is never the sense of a frontier being crossed.”
I remember back when there were only 50 webpages and you had use a 2600 baud modem and we would sit up all night waiting on an animation to download on a website.
OR
My first HDD upgrade was a 3 Gb drive and I paid $400 for it.
THUS:
"Damn, Atlas, your dad was being all INTERNESTALGIC today, talking 'bout how back in the day - his 56k modem was the shit. Your old man is old."
Slowly taking it up the ass over a period of time so that you do not feel the effects of an invasion of your personal liberty or of that of your distinct social group.
Wow, that OPD raid sucked. But what do people think. They've let corporate America fuck them up the ass for years for years without saying anything as their individual freedoms were slowly eroded. It's like incremental anal.