Money root to all evil.

[Awaiting_the_fifth]

I think that this thread has suffered from a bit of a typographical error and people are taking different understandings of the quote in question.

I think the word is root, not route.

To say that money is a route to evil would mean that if you had money, you could use it to to achieve evil. Possibly even that to have a love of money places you
irrevocably on the path which will certainly leed to evil.

The actual quote was

"love of money is a root of evils"

root, as in tree root. A beginning, a foundation, a necessary anchor.

To me, this quote says that a love of money is an essential part of an evil heart, but not the only part, it takes more to be evil.

[Jeff]

I dont not believe that money is the root of all evil, I believe human nature is.
Money was invented by humans so while it is not the "root" of evil i beleive it helps to perpetuate many of the evil things that go on in this world.

The want of money leads to theivery and violence

The lack of money leads poverty and starvation

the possesion of money (ussually) leads to power and corruption

but we canot say that money is the cause of these things. for if we were all good people money would make society much nicer, But it is not so. In the world today those with the possesion of money (the corperations) do not care for those who lack money and so a huge cycle of poverty and violence is built around a philosophy based on greed and selfishness.

[Freedom of Opinion]

I have to agree with you Jeff, Human nature is the "evil".
In good people, money would be used for good things and possibly help others, whereas in greedy people, money is used simply to benifit themselves and their own wealth. I don't see money as the problem, I think the problem is the nature of the person who has the money.

[Satanist]

Power is not evil .Everybody need power and ability for their own ends.
There are no idealogies that cannot manage to use money to their own goals therefore it does not exclude those moralities "good" and cannot be evil.

If money are evil then all abilities are evil and so would voluntary isolation from groups be evil and indepence would be evil.

Also why should money be used for others?
If there were any reason to,
then there would be economicaly reason too.

We all have personal motivations that we must satisfy to feed our ego and stenghten our mind. In short fun.

Greed is not really evil nor is excess.
Greed and excess is a part of such pradoxal ideas such as perfection and goodness

To not be greedy is to only live on a minimum
and eventually altruists must care for another persons purely selfish needs
so what is the point?

People need money to describe and preserve needs that are not shared by others and therefore are definition point of our personalites next to the sum of our abilities. Without the ego and our abilties we are not persons.

Without capitalism there would be no way to communicate individual desire and no way to preserve the objects of those desires.

So money, greed and excess are virtues for culture, tolerance and personal developement.

[Shelle]

Originally Posted by presser_kun

Humans by nature love power...

My take on this is:
The Ego loves power - Humans spiritually do not.

I see money fostering the ego and therefore associated with attaining material wealth and power.

Are we all aspiring to more than we really need?

Why is there such an imbalance in society?

[Shelle]

Originally Posted by Jeff

Money was invented by humans so while it is not the "root" of evil i beleive it helps to perpetuate many of the evil things that go on in this world.

Jeff, I am curious about this point.
I have had many discussions with various people regarding money and its origins. Money obviously was invented by humans, but my interest is in who they were and what may have been their original intent. Perhaps the foundations were not solid to begin with.

[queenofsheba]

There is a great song from Les Go de Koteba in Ivory Coast: "L'argent va tuer le monde", meaning "Money will kill the world". Of course Bill Gates isn't evil, if it wasn't for him, this forum wouldn't exist.
The problem starts when people become addicted to money and think it's the most important thing in the world. Things like slavery, suppression and oil wars wouldn't exist if they didn't have an economical purpose.