It made me wonder, hearing from certain people who faced discrimination and harassment. They were hurt every single day intentionally and some of them had PTSD caused by their harm and became incredibly jumpy and traumatized.
Would that make the person who caused the harm evil?
IMO evil is an immutable, intrinsic moral characteristic which is relentlessly harmful to others without remorse. It defines the soul. While varying degrees of this apply to most bad people, I generally don’t think of people as “evil” because they are typically not beyond redemption (i.e. their predisposition is mutable) and there are better ways to descibe them regardless. E.g. X person is racist or Charles Manson is a psychopath.
I also don’t call people evil because it can elevate their status. Being evil becomes