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[3bood]

This is storie I saw befor only 2 days ago. It started,whan I walked with my friends wanted to reasterant to eat lunch. We saw four people try to still money from reastrant. Aslo, we saw some of this people had gaen and he threaten the gaen to boss for the reastrant and there some people sad and scry. Suddenly, some people runing to try escaprd ,but the twistwd evil shut him. So, one people died . The police come and cautgh the evil people. All this happend from people how love money.

[kathyyanyihong]

To some degree,It is true.But,it is all true.Though money is not almighty,it is quite important in our life,without it we can not live well in the world.

[joyceunec2005]

I think that your idea is too radical. Sometimes you can say that money is the root of evil, but you can�t say money is the root of all evil. Money is very important in our life, if we have no money, how can we live our lives. If we have no money, where our clothes, food and some other things come from. If you have no money, how will you do when you fall ill. Then someone who steals money maybe don�t for they love money, just because they didn�t have a good education when they were young, but you know, I don�t eliminate that they love money, because everyone loves money.
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[lily2006]

I think most people make money whithout doing evil. What you have seen just something happened rarely, because you couldn't stop some crazy people to make money by their way. However, All of them will be punished sooner or later. Like you said, policemem came and caught the bad guy.

Money is not bad thing. Depending on how do you make it and how do you use it. It is like water, fire, thunderstorm... it could tear your house down, take your property away, and also could help you get energy.

Be postitive to the world. If you don't like some thing happened around you, if you could not barely them, you have to learn how to correct them.

[LucentShade]

If you're talking about the Bible passage about money, it actually says "The love of money is the root of all sorts of evils," not that money itself is the root of evil. Money is necessary for the exchange of resources, goods, and services in complex human societies, but it's the love of money, also known as greed, that causes people to commit evil acts. It's not a coincidence that greed is one of the Seven Deadly Sins of Catholicism.

[justinlan]

I don't think mony is the root of all evil.we know,some evils happen only for sick moods

[NEVERTURNING]

i agree with you that money is not the root of evil. Maybe it is true for some people and some things. For example, we all know the violent behavior of MaJiajue. There is no doubt that he did some evil things but did he do that for money. Clearly the answer is not. Besides there are many examples to turn this viewpoint down. Actually, i think humanbeing should find reasons in themselves once they did some bad things instead of attribute the crime to any other reason.

[angelwing]

Money has become quite the evil. The original idea was that it represented something of value, as a way of "IOU." But now we see it as its own object, rather than the actual work or value behind it. And that's why it's troubling to give so much value to money. It's supposed to represent the work you put in, but if you see it as its own value, then you lose sight of that value behind it.

Norm
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[NEVERTURNING]

you talked about the matter of values behind the evil. can you make it clearer or give me some examples? thank you!

[angelwing]

[NEVERTURNING]

thank you very much. now i get your point. money is only a medium to make our life easier and more convenient, am i right? But in today's society, many people set it as a goal which must be achieved in any ways and they would sacrifice their beloved or their own life. so now i think that there is something wrong with some people ways of thinking. bo you agree?

[angelwing]

[doramo]

I agree this saying-Money is the root of all evil.
Many people may think that money is not vital in our society, because the personal competence is more and more important in our daily life, so they say having the ability, they can make a wonderful life, because they are able to find an ideal job, get a satisfactory salary and then enjoy themselves. Of course, what they said is almost right. However, if an individual has not sufficient money, he or she cannot be obtained the proper improvement, let alone the competence. They will think about the living all days. Just like how much salary they will get in this month to support life, schooling etc. Therefore, all of them is owing to money. It is money that enforces us to try our best to achieve a high diploma, it is money that emerge us to a society, which becomes more and more competitive and it is money that makes us more and more selfish. So why don�t say money is the root of all evil.

[chenlan]

I admit that money issues really cause many crimes and other immoral behavoior, but to say that money is the root of evil, i can't make agreement with you. We can't deny that most of us are working hard for making money and we all love money.The people who work for his country or the happiness of humans, from the bottom of their heart, is very rare, even the number is zero. Most of us love money and struggle to get money, but our purpose is not to become evil in the end. Everyone is rooting for money,but not evil. So to equal money with evil is absolutely not reasonable.

[salmon6]

I think people can�t live without money. People work hard to earn money. If we had much money, we could spend life more rich, comfortable and fun. However, I think there are more important and wonderful things than money. Most people who fascinated by money, make a fetish of money and lose sight of priceless things. They may are not necessity for life, but the life without there is very very poor