This all depends on what you view being 'good' or 'bad' or 'evil'. Obviously, what the Glukkons and Vykkers are doing is bad. It's controversion as to whether this kind of activity really needs to take place on Earth, but they are bad things.
However, we've already established that Glukkons are not evil. This is probably because Lorne himself says so. Think of it this way: the Glukkons are not responcible for their ancestors' actions. As far as they're concerned, they're selling products to the Khanzumerz, which, to them, is good. They're also providing jobs for unemployed Mudokons and Kintos. Okay they're not good, but they're most certainly not evil.
Now to Vykkers. Vykkers enjoy inflicting cruelty upon poor defenceless creatures (preferrably cute ones). However, five year old children do the same (in Blue Remembered Hills they do, anyway), and of course a human that young does not fully understand how life and death works, and haven't quite reached the stage where they can feel for other people. It is entirely possible that this condition is a terminal attribute associated with Vykkers - they don't realise that the critters are living things and really do feel very bad about their treatment. Plus of course, they're finding cures for Oddworld's importand inhabitants (such as lung cancer) and manufacturing drugs that everybody needs (laxatives are essential to good living). Vykkers are not evil either. Their actions may be, but their minds are not thinking on that plane.
In fact, all creatures on Oddworld are not evil - the exception being Khanzumerz. I know I haven't explained that well enough, but I'm not in the right frame of mind today.
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