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Money is the Root of all Evil?

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min0rity:
being ignorant is the root of all evil

Ant:
That's probably true but what is the root of all ignorance?  Ignorance causes lots of problems, we are all ignorant to some thing.  Does anyone desire ignorance?  Some people eventually do usually later in life.  Then ignorance becomes a shield.  But ignorance is something we all have to live with.   It can't be overcome.  So don't hate the ignorant person or label him evil.  Very few people are willingly ignorant, and very few people, even the supposed ignorant, consider themsevles ignorant.  

You probably don't consider yourself ignorant, but you are ignorant for certain things.  Just like I am.  I guess the point is, don't look down on ignorance, instead be grateful you aren't and humble enough to admit you are.  

Ignorance is an "evil", but its not evil.  

Personally, I don't believe in good or evil.  I believe everyone acts according to what they think is best.  You can only act on what you know.  In this sense I guess ignorance causes evil.  I just personally don't like hearing people negatively labelled ignorant and looked down upon.  If that makes sense.

min0rity:
yeah i agree ....everybody is ignorant...but i never look down at people who is unwillingly ignorant, we all are sometimes,  only those who chooses to be ignorant on purpose ..they can cause some serious problems although it may not seem like it

bLaDe:
Its like fire, if you play around with fire, and it burns down ure house, you cant say its the root of all evil.  Its how you use it, and how careful you are with it.  If its used properly, it gives you heat, light, energy etc... Same with money, it can corrupt ones mind, get people killed etc... But it can also be used for education, health, food, etc..

  -{bLaDe}

Ant:
Willing ignorance kind of bothers me, but these people I feel worst for.  Although when their ignorance turns to arrogance then its hard not to get a little pissed off.

Although it depends what you mean by willingly ignorant.  I see people in day to day life that try to "enlighten" their fellow man and get pissed when he doesn't listen.  They then consider him willingly ignorant.  They tried to teach but their teachings were rejected.  There could be any number of reasons for this.  Teaching depends on a lot of things, a few of which are respect, reason, and consistancy.    

If you show someone something and they don't listen its either because they don't respect you enough to listen to your advice (respect is something you have no right to force), or you didn't provide sufficient reason for them to listen to your advice, or the person that gives advice isn't consistent.  They don't practice what they preach.  A person that doesn't listen to advice should be neither blamed nor pitied, in my opinion at least.  Personally when I encounter such people I just pay them no mind.  I remain indifferent.

There is another popular form of willing ignorance.  It comes later in life after people have held to their convictions for many years only to find out that their convictions were wrong.  It probably hits them suddenly for a split second and then they fall back on thier ignorance to save them from despair.  They don't want to look back at all the wasted years, they think thier was too many years wasted to change now.  Its better to go on believing I was right.  They give up learning anything new, they hide from anything that challenges their beliefs.


Perhaps I got a little off topic, but the above explains the predominant form of willing ignorance existant in society today. People say it takes strength to stand by your convictions. It may take even more to let them go.

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