Thoughts on defining evil Forgive me Im new and don't study evil but for me we would have to start with a definition and since we likely have no real origin of the word lost to time I'd go with the current which would be the lack of good or a villian it has been said no person can be wholly evil or good as it cannot be done all the time the nature of things dictate then that an evil must be an act . Now what parameter are required for an act to be evil , what is evil must be perspective based on environment and learned experiences example ,is it an evil commit the ultimate evil act to stop evil ?to play a trick or set a trap ?to be evil can be summed up as avoiding confrontation perhaps often associated with darkness which is another argument I will not be writing an essay on at this time but from what I know is that you choose to act unaturallly that you choose to lie is the simpalist way to avoid this actual lecture is to sum up evil as to knowingly lie .