Selling Out is About Half-doing What You're Doing

A mafioso is not a sell-out. The police officer who takes a bribe from a mafioso is a sell-out. Selling out is not about doing something bad. It is about half-doing the thing you are supposed to be doing and half-doing some other thing.

The essence of sell-outism is not badness but corruptness, which is different.

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