Is Money evil?

United States
January 14, 2010 6:16pm CST
do you believe in the saying that "money is the root of all evil"?
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11 responses
• Australia
15 Jan 10
Money is an inanimate object and therefore cannot be good or evil. Since money is inanimate, it has to be used by a person for it to have any influence. Money can be used to provide enormous benefit and it can be used to bring destruction. Does that make money good or evil? Of course not! But those who put the money to use can be termed in such a way. The actual quote is taken from 1 Timothy 6:10 "The LOVE of money is the root of all evil" and it follows Paul talking about people who grasp to become rich at the expense of others. There is no doubt that the USE of money by evil or unwise people can bring about much misery, or that the LOVE OF MONEY and CHASING AFTER MONEY will cause some people to trample over others and to commit evil deeds in their pursuit. Money is a commodity - a necessary commodity - which should be used wisely to bring joy, satisfaction and benefit to many.
• Australia
15 Jan 10
Well welcome to myLot Marketingmother. I'm sure you'll have a lot of fun here. And thank you for the best response too.
• United States
15 Jan 10
i marked yours the best. i am learning so much on this site. so much knowledge from so many people. i will admit something....of course i already said i quoted it wrong...i will watch that in the future.lol but i really did not know that the quote came out of the bible. i am 46 years old and did not know that. thank you for telling me something i honestly did not know.: )
@online_jon (1476)
• Philippines
15 Jan 10
First of all I want to greet you a pleasant day marketingmother! Well, I think the right quote phrase is this "the love of money is the root of evil". For me the saying is correct because when you are already too greedy to money. Your eyes became a coin and your heart became made of gold. But honestly? For me it is also depend to the people who have a great thinking ability and to those people who can easily became a slave of gold.
• Philippines
15 Jan 10
In addition, there are people who is ready to kill a person just for the money. Where the value of the money became high as the value of life. Which is wrong because no matter what happen the value of life can never be buy. Especially when you will buy it for a wrong purpose of life. As I know it really happen at ancient time and now it is still happening. One example of it is in movies where they show the evil thoughts of money when you are already to greed on it. Other reason for it is because of the poor status of people. Which they will do all the things that they can to have a money in their hands.
• United States
15 Jan 10
yes you are correct...i wrote it completely wrong.lol...sorry but everyone has been so nice in correcting me. haven't been doing this to long can't you tell?lol your philosophy is from ancient times and rings 100% true to this day. thank you so much for your insight. i'm learning a lot.
@sierras236 (2739)
• United States
15 Jan 10
Money is just a piece of paper that has numbers printed on it or a piece of metal with figures stamped on it. Money in itself is not evil. As with any inanimate object, it is how it is used that reveals the user's intent. Humans decide if money is evil or if it is good. Inanimate objects cannot make such decisions.
• United States
15 Jan 10
seems alot of poeple agree with your thinking...thank you for your reply. and your description of money.;p
@trruk1 (1028)
• United States
15 Jan 10
Actually, the full quote is "the love of money is the root of all evil." Money itself is neither evil nor good. The things people will do to obtain money are limitless. Many people will submerge their ethical or moral qualms if some dubious action will bring in money. One part of this that puzzles me is that people who are already rich continue to work 70 and 80 hours a week and continue to engage in subterfuge, deceit, and outright theft in order to have more money. I just don't get it. Why does a person need 14 bedrooms? You only sleep in one. If you have everything you want but have little time to enjoy it because you are constantly engaged in increasing your wealth, what is the point? A man with a million dollars wants to have two million. A man with a billion dollars wants to have two billion. What on earth for? It is not the money itself that is a problem but the incessant urge to always grasp for more. It isn't even good to eat.
@trruk1 (1028)
• United States
15 Jan 10
Yes. It is all about comparing yourself to the other guy. Suppose you just bought a new Ford Expedition. You are so proud of it you park your wife's car in the garage but your Expedition stays in the driveway, where all the neighbors can see it. Your water heater explodes and you call a plumber. He shows up in an Expedition just like yours, but his has leather seats and GPS, neither of which you bought because they cost extra money. Now your new toy is not special. The plumber has a better one. What has happened to your new car that you loved so much? Nothing. But you thought it gave you status. Now it does not, and you think less of it. And of yourself.
@allknowing (137769)
• India
15 Jan 10
What a difference it makes when something is wrongly quoted. Money is not evil but going after it is. Money is needed for survival without which nothing can be achieved and nothing can be done. We are here you and I just because we have the means to buy a pc and even a broadband connection!!!
@allknowing (137769)
• India
15 Jan 10
myLot is precisely meant to gain knowledge and you are doing that. Keep it up!
• United States
15 Jan 10
i like that...pc and broadband connection. and yes i would have been better of just saying "is money evil".....lol....i'm getting hammered on that one...but it's life. not sweating the small stuff...but i need to get my quotes straight...i'm going to the bookstore...or use the internet.lol...thanks a million
• United States
15 Jan 10
It must be! Because I am like the least evil person I know. I believe that too much money can add to the corruption of a person. But I don't think it's the money's fault. I believe some people have evil "roots" that money feeds. Yeah I think that's the best way I can put it.
@trruk1 (1028)
• United States
15 Jan 10
I am also one of the least evil persons I know. Maybe that is because I do not have any money. No, that is not it. I had what is called in the insurance industry a "catastrophic illness" and I went broke. Before that, I was pretty affluent. And I was not a bad guy then, either. I have never loved money. I like what I can do with it, but when money is short, life is pretty good, anyway.
@greysfreak (1384)
• United States
15 Jan 10
Money is not evil, people who care more about money than other lives are the evil ones. Money doesn't have the ability to BE evil, it is just money. Money is a necessity. Without money, nobody could survive, money is necessary to keep food in your stomach, clothing on your back and a roof over your head. Basically without money, a person could not live long, because they would be walking around with rags on, freezing, and starving. So no, money is not evil, and people who have money aren't evil, it's the people who have money and care about it more than they care about other people--or hurt other people for money, that are evil. Sometimes I think that people who are struggling think that money is evil, because they don't have much of it, but that is not money's fault. Money does not grow on trees, it would be nice if it did, nobody would have to worry about not being able to get by, but it's reality. I actually thought of a line from a song I know when I was writing, it says "In this world it's not all the money that's evil, it's the ones that choose it over life", that basically sums up how I feel about this question. Money alone has NO powers of good or evil, it's the people who have the money who make the money good, evil or neutral.
• United States
15 Jan 10
thank you so much..i enjoyed reading your response.
@elmiko (6630)
• United States
15 Jan 10
yes theres been many bad things occur because of money that i've heard about. it doesn't have to be evil though.
• United States
15 Jan 10
true....in general i don't think people mean to be evil. some people just lose sight of what really matters. thank you
• India
15 Jan 10
No dear Money is also important as important life...
@kaylachan (71773)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
15 Jan 10
I don't really believe that. Greed is found in many ways and existed long before money did. Money is only worsened the already existing problem. People want power, they want everything, to be on top. In today's world that means having the most money. However, that isn't nessarlly the case. At least I don't think so. Even the poorest person can be "evil".
• United States
15 Jan 10
very well said...another way of looking at it....thank you
@Avinigav (238)
• Indonesia
15 Jan 10
No, money is not really evil. I think, money is just a tool or thing. So it will not doing evil if there's no someone that used them for evil. Because the money, we can have economic system that complex now. It makes easier to buy or trade. But as we know there are other people that don't have money at all or they are trying hard to get some money. So, if we don't want make money become an evil tool, we can donate and help some people that really need money :)