Individuals who habitually suppress negative emotions tend to find short-term relief, but suffer longer term health consequences, thought suppression and rumination.
Government ministers in the third-world habitually accept backhanders for contracts or break, arbitrarily, agreements to pocket sums acquired in the interim between agreement and performance.
I habitually use seed potatoes in preference to leftovers from the greengrocer's, always following the mantra that using secondhand encourages disease.