The entire world economic system is evil. (Con = is not evil).

May the best debater win. Firstly my opponent has stated that "the economy, that is to say money, is evil" The Economy and money do not have brains. Neither have a mind of their own. Therefore they cannot think. Therefore they cannot do actions, have a conscience etc. An evil thing is generally regarded as something which does bad things simply for the sake of doing them, for the sheer badness of it. Money and the Economy cannot be evil, as they do not intentionally set out to do bad things. "Because of money, people are forced to steal, tempted to kill, and many have to spend a dangerous amount of time away from their family for work" What exactly is money doing? Is is FORCING them to steal/ kill/ stay away from their family? Clearly not! And then my opponent wanders off topic... "People starve, people go without housing or hygiene, and people are forced to be segregated into rich and poor, or separated into a hierachy" Yes I agree that all this does happen. This does not make the economy, or money for that matter "evil". The money would have to have its evil little mind forcing all this to happen and manipulating people. "People waste money instead of helping those who don't have it, and frankly, don't need it because if we scrapped the whole economy and lived without one, the world would be a much less evil place and it would be friendly and co-operative" This is off point. For this to be a valid point money would have to be behind all this, controlling the people, manipulating their minds My opponent then attempts to show us what the world would be like for humans without money: Look at other species, such as ants, wolves, lions, wildebeest, and dolphins, and notice how they live in a community that works together, and as would we naturally, if you look at Aborigines, Native Americans, African natives, Indonesia and Islander natives, Amazon natives. Our technology could develop just as fast,and just as well as it would have. The other species listed have less complex lives then ours. All that is required for them to get food as a bit of team work and they can catch a fish/ other animal, or eat a plant. Humans however do not have it as easy. Most of us are not fit enough to catch other animals to eat. And we already have a more appropriate method of getting food - get a job, earn some money, go to a shop, buy some food! This method of getting food is better for us humans. And why could we not all hunt together aswell you might ask? Well - we are far to used to our own lifestyle to just go about changing it because money is "evil". And as for the native people listed "Aborigines, Native Americans, African natives, Indonesia and Islander natives, Amazon natives" well they do each have forms of currency actually. Currency is vital because it is the one good that you can use to trade for everything - if I wanted to buy a computer for example - would I go up to the computer salesman with my sheep and offer it in exchange? What if he doesn't need or want a sheep? With a form of currency, i.e. MONEY we can be guaranteed a sale. "Our technology could develop just as fast,and just as well as it would have" My opponent offers no proof to this statement at the end of his argument I would urge the voters to vote CON in this debate, as money/ the economy is clearly not evil... It simply doesn't have the mental capacity to be evil!