The Root of All Evil....

[gargantuan]

Lack of money is the root of all evil.
-George Bernard Shaw

[tackattack]

While money does cause a lot of corruption, lack of money definately causes desperation.. oth are equally detrimental to teh common good. Let's all become communists j/k please don't drag me into a political discussion.

[Pippy]

I don't think lack of money counts for anything more than a good joke.

I thinkn the 'desperation' would itself fbe a 'corruption'.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

@ padpriac, despite what is common to assume about me, I don't structure every area of my life around Biblicaldoctrine, It's a common enough secular euphemism that Money s the root of all evil, but I would have to agree that it's not specific enough and if there is absolute good and evil , want for something other than God's will would be the root of all evil, IMO.That would of course include religion as we now see it, tele-evangelism, want of money, avarice, lust, poitics, etc.

Get grip Tacky; I was taking the piss. IE I don't care; I reject the notion of objective good or bad.

Strong,unthinking attachment to anything will eventually cause suffering.

[Pippy]

Some things faster than others.

Is it only that nothing can itself be objectively good or bad, or does it include that the concepts of good and bad themselves cannot be objective?

If something is only real in a tentative, illusory, human way... c'est ca vrai? In an illusory way?

I am not trying to nitpick, but merely wonder aloud, I do not have this on efigured out yet.

Thanks,
-Pip