What is the root of all evil in your opinion and why?

Answer 1

There is no root of evil. Good and evil are value judgements. What is good to one person is evil to another. As humans, we have instincts for compassion and competition.

From a humanistic standpoint, there are things that support society and some things that tend to go against a healthy society. As societies evolve, they tend to promote those things that keep them going, otherwise they don't survive. Lots of societies have come and gone. There are many artifacts of old societies that don't work well in modern ones.

Interestingly, some of the bad things for society are good for it. There has to be some churning over of ideas and attitudes that keeps a society going. If a society stagnates, it tends to become less viable. New cultural norms come from past counter-culture.

If I had to pick a "root of all evil", then, it would have to be stagnation.

Answer 2

The root of all evil is emotion... Remember the movie "Equilibrium"? They portrayed a very good example of the role of emotion creating great evil. But it also showed that emotion is still good on some aspects. Although this assumption exists, I still say, emotion is still the root of all evil. Take note that this is only a simple answer to your question. It does not really mean that emotion must be abolished in any way possible, it's just that, emotion causes evil to exist.

Answer 3

Well... Nietzsche saw nihilism as the valuation of one thing unconditionally above all else. On that definition, I'd say nihilism is the world's biggest problem today. Some of the common things unconditionally valued by various groups and individuals are money, religion, and power. If people were to consider these things both more rationally and more compassionately they would not allow themselves to get so carried away. Hollywood might make decent movies again, musicians would be treated as artists rather than revenue-making machines, religious wars and conflicts would be few and far between, politicians would care about the welfare of their constituencies, and the flow of money from government into the pockets of special interest groups would stop.

Answer 4

Money is the root of evil - everything evil is done for the want of money okay and the bush family too.

Answer 5

Greed. I think all evil on the planet can be traced to greed.
War is due to some rich guy wanting to get richer.
Poverty is created by others greed.
Drugs are distributed for greed.
Greed causes violence.

Answer 6

"The (love of money ) is the root of all evil, according to the bible think about it people work all the the time because they think they must attain great wealth to be happy forgetting about the family they have at home and forgetting to spend time with them and watching their kids grow and the little things that are worth more than all the money in the world , empires grew and crumbled for the power of wealth, people steal for money, kill for it like to attain it because they love money better than the people they hurt in the process of attaining money!

Answer 7

Wanting

Answer 8

Organized religion

Answer 9

Islam, It causes people to die, it's own and innocents of the world. In the history of the world There has never been such a cancer that flies a flag of peace and tolerance and murders.Their Clerics encourage this, so who is at fault. If Muslims laid down their weapons today there would be no more violence. If Israel laid down their weapons, there would be no more Israel.

Answer 10

human beings

everything that is done, is done by us, and theres not a person out there that can say everything they have ever done was or has not lead to something evil.