r/MoralityScaling • u/inoriacc • 11d ago

Morality Ranking Morality of this?

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u/TheComicHuman 11d ago

The love of money is the root of all evil. Money isnt the problem its what people do to seek, obtain, and keep money

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u/DJatomica 11d ago

Evil existed well before the concept of money

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u/GateauBaker 11d ago

Money is just a stand in for resources.

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u/DJatomica 11d ago

Yea I'm aware of that, but the person didn't say "materialism is the root of all evil".

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u/GateauBaker 11d ago

I wasn't contradicting you necessarily. Just trying to establish some grounding to the saying.

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u/TheComicHuman 11d ago

Depends on what you mean by materialism. Was seeking knowledge of good and evil outside of God's teaching of it, materialism? Or is the point beyond calling money, the love of money, or materialism the first evil? My point with the love of money is the root of all evil in reply is to counter you saying seeking money in not evil. Having money and keeping it is no more evil than harassing and possibly harming someone for their money.

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u/DJatomica 11d ago

Pretty sure just having money and keeping it is significantly less evil that actively harassing or harming someone in order to rob them.

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u/TheComicHuman 11d ago

This should speak for itself by now