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Originally Posted by Rose76
Evil, if you look up the definition, is the deliberate doing of something that is profoundly wrong, by someone in a position to appreciate the wrongness. That something is "wrong" is a moral judgement...
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Webster distinguishes between natural evil and moral evil, and the above would fit the definition of moral evil...
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Natural evil is any thing which produces pain, distress, loss or calamity, or which in any way disturbs the peace, impairs the happiness, or destroys the perfection of natural beings.
Moral evil is any deviation of a moral agent from the rules of conduct prescribed to him [either] by God *or by legitimate human authority*; or it is any violation of the plain principles of justice and rectitude.
All wickedness, all crimes, all violations of law and right are moral evils...
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...but not all evils (such as disease or euthanizing a sickly animal) are *
moral* evils.