2006-09-26 08:07:19 · 22 answers · asked by St.Anger 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
That is a very interesting idea. I have never heard of it but it makes complete sense.
We are insecure about our looks when we look at someone who seems more attractive or beautiful according to media. We get jelous.. .Jelousy is considered evil.
We are insecure about our finances...We steal...cheat....drink....sleep around.... all beacuse we are insecure about something in our lives.
Interesting point... I think I might have to agree it is definatly a fork in the direct root to evil.
2006-09-26 15:48:43 · answer #1 · answered by Sarah 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hobbes says that competition is a natural tendency among human beings but such a tendency spawns from specialization which spawns insecurities.
This concept can best be illustrated by a story.
Say I am a prehistoric human being. As such a human being I have a variety of talents suited for survival and maybe some extra developed crafting skills.
If I do have those crafting skills ( and by crafts I mean objects that are decorated or may have only decorative use) that means one or more things. It means that I have the leisure time to make such things, that I gather the materials for them on a regular basis (having become efficient at crafting them) and possibly that I have "customers" who are willing to trade for my goods.
Now as a prehistoric person most likely i started out as a nomad, hunting and gathering for food. Then, as the climate changed and rudimentary methods of farming were discovered I begin to settle in one area.
I settled maybe with family members or some type of tribe. Such a settlement would most likely have been communal. Those who were best at hunting hunted, gathering gathered, weaving weaved. Because of specialization I am able to focus on my skill thus becoming proficient. Those with other skills may not have as much time to weave their own baskets or make their own pots and so they come to me to trade for them.
Specialization leads to dependency and and results from competion. In a modern world that specialization is still there but the communal community (for the most part) does not exist. There are so many providers of food and shelter that we don't feel a need for each other and therefore fear each other as consumers of limited resources insteading of sharing them.
And so the man who does not make 6 figures feels insecure or insufficed (jealous) because the man down the street does make that much.
I agree with Hobbes.
2006-09-26 08:53:27 · answer #2 · answered by blkswan02 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely! It wasn't until my mid-twenties that I realized the devastation insecurity brings to our lives on every level. It is definitely one of the main roots. I think by recognizing the evil insecurity brings us is, of course, the first step to eradicating it out of our lives.
2006-09-26 08:12:15 · answer #3 · answered by May 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Insecurity is the seed from which most if not all other evils grow. fear is just magnified insecurity, greed is the insecurity that I can never have enough to be safe.
The one possible exception I can think of is the saver. Someone who sees it as their duty to show you where you are wrong and will go to absurd lengths to "convert" you
2006-09-26 08:19:26 · answer #4 · answered by Scott L 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'll have to disagree.
People are the root of all evil. With out us there would be just...living and dying without the human label "evil"
2006-09-26 09:24:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I dunno. I tend to want to agree, but I can imagine a world where people's insecurities were removed, but frustration with other people's ignorant, yet innocent mistakes boiled over, and then we have alot of those problems we normally attribute to evil all over again.
Maybe it's just that it is human nature to be insecure about certain things - and then evil flows from that insecurity.
2006-09-26 08:33:47 · answer #6 · answered by Yooka 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No-money is still the root to all evil.
2006-09-28 06:59:19 · answer #7 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, not really. Insecurity is certainly part of it (it's what makes people fear death, worry about heaven and hell, and want to be part of a huge group such as a religion to give them power of numbers), but there's a much more insidious human emotion that causes more problems...
Greed. That's *my* ancestral land, how dare you other people try and live on it? How dare some other country do well when I have a hard time finding a job? I want my share, my land, my welfare, my grants, my job, my my my my my my my.
Sigh.
2006-09-26 08:12:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ignorance is the root of all evil.
2006-09-26 08:58:26 · answer #9 · answered by Urntrede frdtrut 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-18 00:36:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋