What fundamentally is evil?

Question

It has been said that money is the root of evil but that doesn't seem right to me. So what is the root of evil?

Answer 1

Evil doesn't exist, its just an illusion, people are "evil" because they doesn't care about others and they try too go to the easy ways of life rather than the wright ways.

Answer 2

There is no identity called evil but people who where either spoiled rotten or psychologically hurt when they were young.

Answer 3

Money is not the root of evil.  There was evil before there was money.  The root of evil is greed.  Every evil act is motivated by greed in one way or another.  The greed is often indirect but it is the motive nonetheless.

Answer 4

we all need to make money, there is nothing wrong with making lots of money to live a comfortable life.

money is the root of all evils. this is misrepresented as follows:

Greed motivates us to somehow make more and more money even by evil means.

Too much money gives too much power and abuse of power is evil.

Money enables us to hide our sins by hiring so called good lawyers.

That is evil.

The wrong methods of obtaining money is the root of all evil.

Enjoy

Answer 5

Greed. The act of coveting always seems to preceed an act of evil.  

Answer 6

Ignorance.  And then fear arising from ignorance, anger arising from fear, and violence arising from anger.  It all comes back to not knowing the truth about things, about oneself, about life.

Answer 7

The ego or artificial self created it. It has no reality in the world God has created. With forgiveness we see all as perfect creations of God.

Answer 8

...its perspective views...your evil is my good...MONEY will like lead the innocent astray...

Answer 9

Evil as Good is nothing but point of view. Boo me if you wish but it's he truth. A man steals a loaf of bread to feed his starving family.To his family he is a hero. To the baker he is a villain. Who is right? Who is wrong? Or is it as I said before " point of view"?

Answer 10

The failure to think through our notions, including ethical ones, to find a common truth. To reject the search for truth is to reject the goodness of the cosmos. To accept the statements of others as truth without the statements being examined by the mind's reasoning power is to live a lie. The thought that one has the procession of absolute truth without examination or the belief that there is no truth is fundamentally harmful to one's self. We exist as middle beings, we know to much to really be skeptics and we know too little to really be dogmatists. When we deny this truth or don't let this truth play out with others, meaning when we don't let them think for themselves, we commit evil. Morality ends were the gun begins, were force of some overrule the thinking of some or one.

Answer 11

I've answered a question like this too and my conclusion is that chaos is the root of evil because everything exists in chaos because chaos is essentially all that is possible because all that is possible doesn't agree with each other and that causes pain, fear and destruction.  Which are also things we call evil.