People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.
As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.
People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.
'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.