Look at all these people throwing around the word "evil". The fun thing about that word is that people can't really define it, or rarely go to the work to do s

Look at all these people throwing around the word "evil". The fun thing about that word is that people can't really define it, or rarely go to the work to do so. Virtually everyone defaults to "I know it when I see it" which is a statement that basically says "my biases or identity or viewpoint will dictate it". Evil is that which threatens your survival in some manner: directly by force, indirectly by threat of force. Survival is itself not boolean, it is basically a rolling total of percentile risk. And most importantly, that perception of evil is specific to your point of view, and your individual existence in the world. To point back to the article, it specifically mentions Muslims and the Israeli-Palestine conflict, which very clearly demonstrates the perspective-based essence of the perception of evil. Palestinians think Israelis are evil for starving them and bombing them, a constant threat that reduces their collective individual survivability. Guess what, Israelis think Palestinians and Muslims are evil because they lob missles at them, send their own bombers, and several times attempted to invade and destroy their country. Well, gosh, two sides that think the other side is evil. That is war and conflict. It isn't always going to be Axis vs Allies with one side using gas chambers and the other side rolling in gallantly on tanks. War sucks. Evil is relative. But these days, nuance is dead. So a bunch of people thought some new hire's views were "evil", that is those statements promoted an attitude that contributes to a subculture of hostility against them and reduces their survivability quotient. So they get him fired, so from his perspective a bunch of radicalized thought police fired him from his job denying him a good salary for a long time, directly threatening his survival. Guess what, that makes the thought police evil. The fun thing is when you get to modern civilization ramping through its resources faster than is sustainable. Participating in society is degrading your survivability. You are evil to yourself. And if evil is simply a representation of risk to your survivability in the great game of life centered on the global biochemical reaction that is life, there is no universal evil, and there is no god.