And the difference is....?
If you can’t see the difference between being a relatively harmless selfish jerk and being a monster who destroys peoples lives you have no wisdom or judgement. Again, to lump them all as “evil” trivalizes true evil, and actually helps it to continue. Most people have some small moral lapses during their lives. If people call them all “evil” they are less likely to be outraged by true evil.
This is how you are deceived. Like I said before, gradations, gradations. This changes nothing about the definition of evil. Wickedness comes in all strengths.
I’ve got to get to work, but it’s a slope. It’s all evil and you can start small and eventually move on to evils that effect more people negatively. Doesn’t matter. Satan still smiles. Best to stay away from any moral wrong.
Definitions of evil on the Web
# morally objectionable behavior
# morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
# that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare
# having the nature of vice
# the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"
# malefic: having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
From the column-—”...small cruelties committed by unthinking people — who view themselves as good and just, despite their sometimes malicious actions — have done more than most people realize to spread evil, degrade civilization, and drag our culture into the sewers.”