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?

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    Suffering is bad, and the intentional or neglient creation of suffering is evil.

    Those that have created suffering have done evil, and those that are currently creating suffering, or plan to create suffering are evil. The larger the suffering, the greater the evil.

    Those that have done evil, but are no longer willing to do evil are not evil.

    In the end, evil is a simplification that allows us to take power from those that want to create suffering without needing to know what exactly they are doing or planning.