Nice post! It got me thinking. To me good and evil are just labels that we use for convenience. All action is made manifest through love when you consider things at a systemic level, however as individuals we can certain hate some of the outcomes. Some of us have learned that our love of certain short termed gratuitous pleasures often have long term negative effects so we tailor our love for these things accordingly.

In order for others to see the wisdom of these epiphanies some people label such detrimental actions as ‘evil’ so as to help their own moral convictions. Others take the, “Do as I say not as I do”, course and label actions such actions as evil in order to maximize their own pleasure seeking hedonistic ways. Still others even use the “It’s for your own good” rational as they purge the evil out of individuals with many indescribable historically and unfortunately currently used practices.

This can be helpful as an individual to a degree but not necessarily beneficial to do as a society. There are so many cultural differences that we need to accept with more open minded toleration. Labeling too many things as evil at this level is really spreading the evil more than promoting good imho.

For example, “Greedy money grubbing is the root of all evil”. Could be a truth for some at an individual level but the real issue is more systemic in nature. It is not that there is some evil person or persons hiding behind a veil of goodness tying to deceive us. Most people directly involved in money are just trying their best to do what is considered correct for the shareholders or maximize corporate profits. The system needs to be changed if we desire a different outcome and labeling a systemic process as evil is like kicking your computer trying to make it calculate better. ;)