'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.
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Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.
Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.
Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.
Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.
Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.
For something to be completely evil is to be nothing. Satan has good attributes - intelligence, for instance - but they are corrupted. I cannot reconcile myself emotionally to alternative understandings of evil.
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.
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