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What do you personally think is the root of all evil?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: To tell you the truth, I think it is money, and anything of value. Money is the source of most forms of greed.

I used to think that in a true (not dictatorship such as China) communist society evil would not exist - yet this is not true; such a society can not exist because people will always be greedy.

So through saying that, I can say that humans and their natural instincts are the root of all evil. We are naturally greedy - well most of us - and are willing to do bad things to get what we want.

One other, final, thing (though I apologize for it being off topic) I would like to add is that the most evil of deeds often come from Christian society - people who believe they are doing the will of God just by doing the ritualistic things such as going to church ignoring the true teachings of the bible - it teaches people to be nice and giving, to forgive, and so on. Instead, many people think whatever they do is not evil just because they are a so called 'Christian'.

Anyway, so I can pretty much say that evil roots from many different sources - there is not really a single root. Though I have already said a few things are the root, I would like to conclude that it is not greed or money or Christianity that is the root - it is intelligence. The more we know, the more our greed. Of course, true wisdom can have the reverse effect, yet humans, the most intelligent species on earth, are the only ones truly capable of doing evil things.