money isn`t bringing happiness?

Question

hey guys...i really need your help..i have an oral exam next week and i have to debate against the idea that money brings happiness!!! can you please give me some really good arguments that i can use!!! i have some ideas but i need some more!!! thank you!god bless ya`ll

Answer 1

I wish I could, but I think it contributes a great deal, cos life really sucks without money. Anyone who says otherwise is full of it.

Answer 2

I am atheist and believe that money is everything (I will explain why I said that in a bit) so I think I can help you the most. I will try to point out the things that he will say as well as the answers which I feel will make the audience(students?) think a bit.

First off I am going to assume that you are female because of your name and the fact that you are a deist because of the "thank you god bless ya'll" at the end of your question so forgive me if the assumption is wrong.

I will also assume that your opponent will be strickly speaking from a modern point of view which is where money is truly an issue. So with that being said let's see if I can help.

Money is everything because it is a means to an end. Money can buy a roof over your head, a car to get to work(for more money) the best food, better health, yadda yadda. I think you need to exploit the happiness of love which, I feel, can't be bought.

You can't buy the beauty of childbirth, no two ways about it.You can buy a child and you can buy a sperm donor, but you can't buy the love of your child giving you a kiss for no reason. You can't buy the memory of your first kiss for that matter.

You can't buy your union with your god. Not a very popular subject among atheist, however, I am merely throwing out ideas. There are also happy hermits. Yeah picture that! Money is a means to be a hermit because every one of us that has spent hours on a computer by themselves has been a hermit. Most hermits traditionally don't have money.

Happiness has been around since the beginning of time. How about an animals happiness? They don't have money. Human emotion maybe? Watching the sunrise is free and it's a beautiful thing. Did I mention it doesn't cost money?

Maybe you could use the animal angle to solidify your point. Or maybe the race angle. Happiness is knowing somebody does not hate you because of the color of your skin, creed, gender OR social status. Ok, I am done.

I think I took too long to say what I had to say, but hopefully I have given you some ideas. Good luck with your debate.

Answer 3

I'm gonna come at this from another angle. Consider the word 'happiness'. I'm guessing that it's a derivative of the word happen. So I conclude that happiness comes from good things (outside of yourself) that 'happen' to you. (joy is a whole other thing and comes from within yourself). So could money affect your happiness? Absolutely, by helping to control what 'happens' to you. However, your question is 'that money BRINGS happiness' is probably not true. Money can and does BUY happiness. But just because you are 'happy' does not mean you are content and satisfied.

Answer 4

The statement in and of itself is a priori. The is no way to know it money really brings a person happiness. Not to mention the subjectivity of it as well. What makes one person happy may not make another person happy. The bottom line is that money cannot avert problems therefore it cannot bring happiness in and of itself. Happiness is intrinsic. If a person is dying of cancer and someone gives them a million dollars that person is not going to be any happier than they were before.

Answer 5

Why would we find happiness in bits of paper? There's alot more precious things then money. Celebrities have so much money yet alot of them are still depressed so they buy things which make them more depressed so they turn to different cures like drugs and anti-depressants so they end up in rehab. That's all that money can do for them.
Yet people with families, friends are the happiest. Love beats money because love is real. Money is only paper that doesn't last forever like love does.

Answer 6

Let me say this. Your debate is a wide open one -- extremely broad. That can be dangerous in the world of Dialectic (Debate)...or (Argument).

Know that there exists a dichotomy to any given thing in this world. For as soon as you own to one thing, you have to at once know that there is the opposite to it.

The two are one. 'Just like when we speak of a day, we are in fact speaking of both the daylight and the nighttime phases to equal one solid day.

For example: if you say, Day light is 'not' everything, at once you are impelled on its equal if complete and imperative opposite, -- nighttime 'is' everything.

Of itself, this is not true, but ---more important...

>>>Neither is true alone, but either can be true ' depending ' on ' what ' the respective ' focus ' or ' objective ' is or the task needing to be completed is.

It is all provisional, conditional, see?

When you start your argument (dialectic) or debate, try beginning with the interrogative: " ' Money is not everything for what are you arguing -- in what manner do you mean this?' "

Then proceed from there...by pointing out how money may be apt for X but not relevant or appropriate or even needed for Y ...

See What I mean?

This at once brings it into the provisional or conditional state; it narrows it down and removes it from the vastness and ambiguities of the argument. You have much less chance of getting lost... and losing your argument (or debate).

If you do not do this, you will have dove into a deep and vast ocean...and without a safeharbor to swim back to...

Even master orators would have to narrow down so broad a topic.

For who among us does not know that in America, money is rated right up there with Oxgen in terms of importance and necessity. ( hint: here America is the condition)

Again, it depends on what is being addressed -- what is the sought-for aim...

Maybe only the Poets could tackle it outright in its original breadth and vagueness.

But still, I don't know that they could do so without the use of point and counterpoint.

Answer 7

Money is a tool and nothing more. It can buy many things, provide for many things including luxurious lifestyles but it cannot purchase happiness. Happiness is a state of mind, happiness is a choice. A choice has no price. All the money in the world cannot purchase it. One can be broke and struggling yet still be happy in spite of their circumstances. One can be rich in money and the things/freedoms it provides and still be miserable. The love of money can and does steal true happiness.

Answer 8

Money is needed to pay your daily expenditure from the basic
utilities to the public transport. With the abundance of it, you may crave for luxury items such as a Louis Vutton handbag or a vacation to Bali. The obession in it deflat your spirituality into hallowness and a urban waste that forgo friendship and company. For to keep up with the counts of billions of dollars would require top-notch banker and strategists to position your currency to further wealth accumulation, hence with the tight ethical rules and regulations, you may fall into a robotic ' moneynocat'.

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Answer 9

Loving money is the root of all evil. When you have money and you know how to use and take care of it well, that's good. But if your priority is money, then you won't have enough time to spend with your family and friends. Money, family, and friends are like balls you juggle. Family and friends are made of glass whil money is a rubber ball. That means money when dropped can still rebound but family and friends when dropped will not rebound anymore.

Many people think money will complete them but instead they become emptier when they think that way. Cause only God can fill their empty lives.

Money didn't make us laugh. Our friends and family did.

Money can be burned and won't last forever. Our friends may be burned, but we will still stay friends forever. money rots but friendships stay as good as new even though it is scarred. Friendship is tested in trials and hardships.

Answer 10

The value of money and wealth in any given system is transient. You may work hard and become one of the lucky persons of high wealth, but at a moment's notice, the "gang" you've worked so hard to seek the approval of can determine your wealth meaningless, and you'll be unable to buy, trade, or sell anything that's in your name.

Money isn't just money. It's a religion and a state of mind. If you don't worship the aquisition of wealth, and you dare to have other diverse interests on the side, then the elite mafia will turn on you and stab you in the back.

That's only one area, but it's something proven throughout history.

Answer 11

Money may make day-to-day life a bit easier, but it doesn't buy happiness. People can be unhappy for an unlimited amount of reasons, not just for lack of money and things. For instance, having money doesn't mean you'll have the ones you love around you. It doesn't prevent people from getting sick and dying, and it doesn't make people love you. Money doesn't prevent mental illnesses like depression, biochemical imbalances and genetic diseases. Money doesn't insure that you will have self respect, confidence, personality, beauty, etc... If you have lots of money, that's one less thing to worry about, but it doesn't necessarily mean you will always be happy.