Here's a random article (from BBC). The sort you probably glance over before turning the page of a newspaper and don't read to the end, because you hear these stories so often.

"Man arrested over church robbery.

        Police are questioning a man in connection with an armed robbery at a church in which a Catholic priest was threatened with a gun. A man and his accomplice targeted St Oswald's Church in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester, last month. They stole a large amount of money after one of them asked the priest if he could be blessed. A 28-year-old, of no fixed abode, was arrested on Monday, police said. He was due to be questioned on suspicion of robbery."

        The point I'm trying to convey is that a lot of people, a lot more that you might think, would do practically anything for money. Because we live in a world where money is an omnipotent demi-god. People are so absorbed in worshipping this particular deity that they often set aside common decency. Need I remind you what is being done around the world, what sufferings are being caused, for the sake of money?

Point 2.

        A friend of mine writes in his essay that it would wrong for the government to subsidise mothers to have babies so as to increase the falling birth rate. Why? Because it would be a sacrilege to tamper something as holy as childbearing and turn it into another business tainted by money. It would be simply indecent and immoral.

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        It doesn't make any sense at all. One moment money is god incarnate and the joy of man's desiring; suddenly, the next, it is repudiated to keep a pretense of morality. Then we pride ourselves over having kept money yet again out of places where it doesn't belong.

        This is absolutely ridiculous. We live in a world where people are willing to campaign against a government scheme to help needy families raise their children. And these families wouldn't even get paid 50,000 won a month. Yet, it is acceptable for us to intentionally overlook thousands of people being exploited directly or indirectly by us, and the crushing poverty that they still suffer.

        Such is capitalist morality, riddled with hypocrisy. It's like the man who, at work, boasts to his colleagues that he has complete control over his wife, but at home is afraid to death of her.