1. Evil is enmeshed in material and social systems and therefore malleable.

2. Or then again evil it might be independent of social symptoms.

3. Or is evil beyond reason, rationality.

Aristotle claimed that virtue (the good)
improves by practise, ie like practising your backhand in tennis.

Are evil people represented by those people you occasionally see shaking their fists at God.

Is sloth, envy, jealousy greed avarice quite respectable forms of evil, because of their essentially unaggressive motives.

But evil has a grisly rationality, is it a sense of at the core of being there is a sense of non-being. This feeling of alienation may cause people to commit attention grabbing evil acts



Are the witches in Macbeth evil, is Iago (with his insatiable spitefulness)  in Othello evil,

What about the invisible hand of God, who is hic and ubique  (here and everywhere). Does he permit evil.

 Real evil is like a kick in the solar plexus

Is evil then a lack of place in the world

Are  fires and floods and earthquakes evil, is this the unseen hand of Go

In teenager talk 'wicked' is really cool, ie it is really good.