Question: These days everyone seems to have more and more possessions (e.g.

computers, cars, mobile phones, etc.) Our strong desire to own these things is making us less aware of important personal qualities such as kindness and concern for others. Do you agree or disagree? Essay: In the process of industrial and technical development, the living quality increases everyday and people have begun to own a large number of material possessions like luxury, cars, mobile phones, and so on. This trend will help people have a better life in property and freedom in society. However, in my point of view, people are losing their moral values such as kindness and concern for others because their strong desire to own these things.

First of all, in modern life, people are becoming more insensitive towards their society. The pressures of jobs, the ambition of having higher salaries, higher positions in their companies, all of these desires overloads them. They want to earn more money to buy all sorts of things or afford for their life. Hence, they do not have enough time to be concerned about anything or anyone around them.

Secondly, crime rate is on the rise in almost every country in the world. Some employed people might do anything to earn money so that they can buy the things they want. According to a 2008 study by the Crime statistics for the United States, 14,180 people were murdered in America and the number of arrests for property crime was 1,248,000 cases. In addition, the cupidity of people is destroying our earth. A lot of people are ready to exchange our natural environment to their benefits. They are not only the murderers but also the suicides. They kill many animals such as shark, tiger, rhino which pulled on brink of extinction. Deforestation, environmental pollutions are the consequences of human action. In contrast, there are some people believe that the desire to possess these objects has not necessarily affected people's personal values. They point out that some rich people, for example, Bill Gates, the richest person, donates his earnings for charitable activities like poverty reduction in many developing countries in Africa. Nevertheless, this example is not the norm if we compare the number of people like Bill Gates with the number of crime as I mention before. In conclusion, I strongly believe that materialism affecting people's moral values. I do not deny that some there are a lot of people who are kind and helpful for life, however, money and other valuable possessions still directly influence on the behavior between people in modern social life. "Man is not born evil, but society corrupts him"