Evil is in the word itself -- inverted life. Anti-life. Evil is what I call "Nonsense" because this is what evil produces -- nonsense, the inane/insane, chaos, anti-creation.
Evil is not destruction. Evil is not death. Evil is not "negative" -- like wrath, or envy. Evil is not the opposite of good, or the opposite of positive.
Evil is that which breaks down the coherence of consciousness. It produces patterns that displace or remove the ability of life to exist. It is a kind of glitch produced by attempting to create an impossible state, or the confluence of states that are incompatible -- thus creating a space for evil.
It is not easy to point and say: "That is evil." Evil requires skillful discernment, but when one begins to comprehend the basic requirements of life, it becomes easier to identify the things which cause life to suffocate.
Stagnation is often an indication of evil, for example. Excess is also often a hiding place of evil.
If I had to summarize evil, it is the abdication of will. When one steps off their throne, evil sits on it. This is a spectrum and not a binary. You can "partially" abdicate.

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But let us be clear: evil has no agency. Evil is anti-agency. Evil does not think, or plan, or strategize. It does not experience. Experience happens *to it.* Evil victimizes itself. It is how you "try" to experience pretending you do not have free will, but this creates an impossible state which creates "glitches" which you experience as a breakdown of reality.
As soon as you begin to see enemies or adversaries, you are disowning your will so that you may experience these challenges and opposition. If you blame, judge or ridicule others, you have fallen off your throne and allowing evil to play -- and evil will always create chaos.
Evil is not capable of creation because creation requires the