Chaz recently dug up this curious postulation on human nature:

[I]t is the contention that in every human creature — and therefore every group comprised of human creatures — there is approx 8.5% corruption.

To that, I’ll cite Theodore Sturgeon’s well-known aphorism on the sorry state of existence in general:

Sturgeon’s Law: 90 percent of everything is crud.

I think the two concepts dovetail nicely. So, doing the math, the combined theory accounts for 98.5 percent of corrupted cruddiness around us. The remainder? It’s all for the good — because there’s simply no room for anything else, frankly.