I'm a firm avdvocate of free will. As such, I'm also a believer in the idea of good or evil, yet I find it tricky to define. To me, Evil is something innate- you know when something is evil, even if you cannot define evil itself.
An act itself is usually not evil, the reasons for it are. Take these examples:
1) Murdering a guy because you can/it gives you pleasure. Evil.
2) Murdering a guy because you think he's the devil. Grey area, the motive becomes ignorance, and we then have the question of if ignorance is evil. Ignorance through naievety isn't evil. Ignorance through a refusal to learn more, I'd call that a...mild....evil. So if he thought the guy was the devil and just went "DIE" then yeah. But if he thuoght he was the devil, researched him, still thought he was the devil then killed him, it's less clear cut.
3) Murdering a guy cause he killed a friend/relative who had done him no harm. Not evil.
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