LogFAQs > #883522350

Money actually serves an important purpose and without it in some form, society would have never developed very far. Doesn't even belong in this grouping.

Borders, while the cause of lots of conflict and I can see why it's on here, also serve useful purposes. Namely, reigning in how much of the world's population evil, despotic, or otherwise terrible rulers/governments can terrorize. Yeah, they can try to ignore those borders and conquer more area, but having clear delineations of where a country's supposed to end is what defines invasion in the first place and not honoring those borders can draw other nations into the conflict to stop the conqueror (lest he later choose to ignore their own borders).

Religion and nuclear weapons are the clear choices here. At least nuclear weapons have a deterrence factor (less war, since it's so risky) and lead to the development of nuclear energy. Organized religion has no positives at all going for it, so I chose it. But both are very bad inventions.