I will end this conversation with one last try at my failed attempts to get my point across. It is this: Money has a corrupting influence on human nature. It doesn’t matter whether you are atheist, communist, Christian, Muslim or libertarian. Money can corrupt you if you weren’t corrupt already. It has happened throughout history. Now we…
I will end this conversation with one last try at my failed attempts to get my point across. It is this: Money has a corrupting influence on human nature. It doesn’t matter whether you are atheist, communist, Christian, Muslim or libertarian. Money can corrupt you if you weren’t corrupt already. It has happened throughout history. Now we have many Trillions of dollars in circulation, much of it originating from corrupt practices and coming from corrupt sources. Many good people have been corrupted by it in ways that would not have otherwise been possible. I used doctors as an example. They caved because of money and prestige. If their money and prestige had not been at stake they most likely would not have caved. They would have stood up for ethical medical practice. But threaten to take away their beautiful home, their children’s private school education, their membership in the yacht club and their country club, and maybe even the gleam in their adoring wife’s eye, and they will look the other way in the face of the greatest medical genocide in history. Money did that. Yes they were human to start with, but the variable we are talking about is money.
I’ll quit on a a couple of verses from the Bible: “The love of money is the root of all evil” (1st Timothy 6:10) and “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil”(Matthew 6:13)
I will end this conversation with one last try at my failed attempts to get my point across. It is this: Money has a corrupting influence on human nature. It doesn’t matter whether you are atheist, communist, Christian, Muslim or libertarian. Money can corrupt you if you weren’t corrupt already. It has happened throughout history. Now we have many Trillions of dollars in circulation, much of it originating from corrupt practices and coming from corrupt sources. Many good people have been corrupted by it in ways that would not have otherwise been possible. I used doctors as an example. They caved because of money and prestige. If their money and prestige had not been at stake they most likely would not have caved. They would have stood up for ethical medical practice. But threaten to take away their beautiful home, their children’s private school education, their membership in the yacht club and their country club, and maybe even the gleam in their adoring wife’s eye, and they will look the other way in the face of the greatest medical genocide in history. Money did that. Yes they were human to start with, but the variable we are talking about is money.
I’ll quit on a a couple of verses from the Bible: “The love of money is the root of all evil” (1st Timothy 6:10) and “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil”(Matthew 6:13)