Anything to Satisfy Greed

Submitted by Hal Dekker (United States), Jan 17, 2006 at 04:58

I believe it is safe to say that what people do is based upon what is most important to them. Some people spend their last dime on drugs rather than on food and clothing for their children, rent, utility bills, etc., because getting high is the most important thing for them.

In WW2, the Nazi's spent their nation's money on war machinery which would give them the capability to murder others in the world so they could more easily steal from them. Whether people are addressed by their nationality, their religion, or whatever, those who set out to murder others so they can more easily steal from them, are all the same genre', murderers and thieves.

To many people in the world it's more important to them to murder others so that they can more easily steal all their possessions, than anything else in life, such as working to earn it and/or build it on their own initiative and sweat. Napoelean, Caesar, Hitler, radical Muslims, etc., etc., etc., anyone and everyone who adopts the doctrine of murder to steal are all the same kind of mortals, lazy and evil sons of bitches who work for the devil to feed their own bellies. To my understanding, every nation upon earth does this to some extent or another, for money. Everyone on earth does it, but no one wants to admit that it exists. This is an indictment against the quality of human nature.

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