Evil - a Definition  

Evil is nothing more than an overriding self-will. That’s it. It is not necessarily a malevolent act, but it is certainly the soil out of which grow all the malevolent and sinful acts of the human race.

Evil, in its most basic state, is that condition in which a person resides when they are desirous of pursuing, or willing to pursue, their own interests without regard to laws, ordinances, rules, authorities, damages to others, or to the self. It is that condition in which a person is a law to their own self, a god to their own self, and it is that condition into which every human being is born from the womb – higher than animals, but with a corrupted nature; little gods not perfect.

This is the whole definition of evil, for out of this condition come at once the most monstrous acts of the world’s most evil men and women, and the most banal acts of the passively selfish.