xayshade said:
Yea except they are the evil team, meaning I HIGHLY doubt their motives for making money would be opening a farm, especially with those snazzy outfits.
They may not have insane motives, but sometimes people do messed up stuff for that dollar, after all money is sometimes considered the root of all evil.
And just because we haven't seen it in the pokemon world doesn't mean it doesn't exist. This could be a big operation and case of "tampering with forces you don't understadnd"
ok I just read this in it's entirety, and im guessing you've never been robbed before or heard of people being shot down in the street, gunned down, bank robberies hostages, big grandiose schemes, drug empires whole scale chaos and take over, based on ad around the goal of accumulating as much money as possible
So, you answered me before you finished reading what I said... sigh. We are off to a
great start.
Yea except they are the evil team, meaning I HIGHLY doubt their motives for making money would be opening a farm, especially with those snazzy outfits.
Where did I said their motives for making money would be having a farm?
You read it backwards, I said that the goal they have with their crimes is the same one any non-criminal person has. That instead of comitting crimes they could just make a business or a farm, and they would get money, and that's why the villains motivation lacks weight,
pathos, if that's all there is to it.
im guessing you've never been robbed before or heard of people being shot down in the street, gunned down, bank robberies hostages, big grandiose schemes, drug empires whole scale chaos and take over, based on ad around the goal of accumulating as much money as possible
They may not have insane motives, but sometimes people do messed up stuff for that dollar, after all money is sometimes considered the root of all evil.
Okay. let's see... Money as "the root of all evil" is a incredibly shallow statement. Evil is an abstract concept, dependant of a
morality (a human construct) therefore, a human invention.
Money is also a human invention. BUT, money is always just a means to an end. In all those examples you gave up there (and I don't see how my personal perception of my area's criminal statistics have anything to do with what's being discussed here), I presume the criminals don't want money to throw it on the floor and roll in it all day long; they want to
use it, be it to buy food, drugs, fancy clothes, a solid gold pimp cane or to overthrow a government, they don't want the money, they want what money means, they want freedom, and they want to get it through high-risk actions: the pay is big, the effort small, the risk of losing it all is high. Money is NOT the root of the human's evil,
humans are the root of evil
and money. If I were to tell you "hey, let's stick up that store in the corner; you could get at least a grand" would you do it? other person might. What's the difference between you and that other person? is it need? is it conscience? is it stupidity? is it recklessness? different moral standards? whatever the reason, the money itself is NOT that difference. In all the examples of the other evil teams, the goal is never money, it's always something greater, and they want it so bad they think they are right in wanting it, and they should get it: the fiercest opponent is always the one who believes himself to be the good guy. This clowns, on the other hand, don't, couldn't. because they would pursue just paper, metal, not their beliefs.
Oh, and I've been robbed twice, one by a junkie in the middle of the day and another by some (allegedly) armed punk. I tricked the junkie to leave and I wrestled the kid for my purse. And I hear about insecurity
every freaking day, and I also know the motives behind that insecurity.
