"Money is the root of all evil" - Give your views
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“Money is the root of all evil”- Discuss.
A very popular proverb over the years for the sake of arguments and serious discussions over the coffee table, the origin of this proverb lies in the Bible. To know the depth of the words in quotes, we thus need to refer to the original statement in the Bible at first, which says, “The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through many sorrows” (I Timothy 6:10). In simpler words, people have often deviated from the path of faith to the darker roads of greediness due to extreme desire for money. In other words, the love of money is the root of all evil.
Having understood the proverb to the core and thus setting the goal of this discussion right, we can now search answers for the discussion on the stated topic. Let us begin with the points in support of the motion, where the first thought that shall come in everyone’s mind is, the cravings for more and more money causes greed and that is destructive, for it leads people to the path of evil. The desires for thicker wallets and more zeroes towards the right of the saving amounts are indeed one of the main reasons for most crimes across the globe. Instances of murders, robberies, embezzlements, blackmails often have greed as the driving force behind the crime. Greed is a characteristic powerful enough to make the greedy blind to consciousness and all other feelings of humanity, love and sympathy, which is evident from the huge number of crimes involving murders of people as close as those related by blood, just for the sake of more money! And so much of greed and thus the crimes committed out of it, are owing to the fact that the world today respects and empowers the rich more than anyone else. Knowledge, good virtues and other such noble characteristics seem inferior in front of monetary strength, as money apparently is supreme power and anything and everything can be purchased with it. Also, the craze for more luxurious life is another reason for the implantation of greed for more money in human minds.
Secondly, money, or rather the love of it, does...