Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”

[Mudhammam]

Or maybe evil is to empathy as cold is to heat. When some villain kills women and children as an expedience we are aghast at the lack of human feeling. But does that mean there is actually something else driving that person which is evil?

It certainly can mean that. Racism, for example, is an irrational hatred towards an entire class of people. Can you defend such a point of view as anything but an offspring and further source of evil?

Maybe it is only their failure to take the value of life into account. Their actual goals may not be anything we'd call evil in themselves. It may just be their indifference to the ensuing suffering which "evil" refers to. Sort of like the choices of so many corporations.

The ends do not justify the means, especially when human beings are viewed as the means.