Lee, “evil in the sense of being in conflict with nature -- survival instinct violated”.
Survival instinct violated is not in conflict with nature, in fact nature is based on violations.
In nature there are no “rights”, like the right to survive.
Some animals eat their own children, but it does not make them evil, because to a certain degree they are pre-programmed machines albeit organic ones.
Human conceptions are not the same as the animal worlds as far as evil acts and punishment.
My point is that ‘evil’ is not a natural concept, it seems more likely to be a man made judgement.