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jeepers

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1. All evil?

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Mon Nov 16, 2015, 12:31 PM

Nov 2015

Doesn't really work when you say most evil. I don't think it is money per se but the power that wealth, among other things, provides

We are a species who live inn fear of eachother because we know that we are capable of great indifference

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"Money Is The Root Of All Evil"..... [View all] global1 Nov 2015 OP

All evil? jeepers Nov 2015 #1

Love of money is the root of all evil. Agnosticsherbet Nov 2015 #2

+1 Money is not the issue - it is the LOVE of it (and loving the power that it brings) which is jonno99 Nov 2015 #5

Leave it to an agnostic to get the adage right n/t malthaussen Nov 2015 #13

Well, I would think Malthusian know that adage Agnosticsherbet Nov 2015 #16

A critical distinction. DirkGently Nov 2015 #15

Individualism, and the ideology of individual success plays into the whole reverence of wealth Agnosticsherbet Nov 2015 #17

Let's test that theory. FLPanhandle Nov 2015 #3

haha GummyBearz Nov 2015 #6

Not money--the LOVE of money. Greed. Avarice. There's where your problem lies. MADem Nov 2015 #4

Can't Buy Me Love :) pinboy3niner Nov 2015 #7

Gimme Some Money Throd Nov 2015 #11

I'll see your "Can't Buy Me Love" and raise you "Money" malthaussen Nov 2015 #14

Civilization is a resource concentration mechanism The2ndWheel Nov 2015 #8

The LOVE of money is the root of all evil. Throd Nov 2015 #9

I thought evil was the root of all money. Gidney N Cloyd Nov 2015 #10

I've heard that the lack of money -- poverty -- is the root of all evil whathehell Nov 2015 #12

No. I'd say that it is more like a crucible. Shandris Nov 2015 #20

Just as the original sin was not "Sex", but the Fear of being exposed in public... haele Nov 2015 #18

Selfishness is the root of all evil – which includes greed and bigotry. cpwm17 Nov 2015 #19