According to Karl Jaspers, evil is the so called “own opinion”, evil is absolute selfishness: it ignores the interests of others. In essence, I agree with this. And from this it also follows that evil is an own goal: the environment - society – punishes the absolute selfishness, because it threatens the members of society and so itself¹. Thus, this approach also connects evil to the ignorance in one’s own opinion, the worng vision of past and future. This means that the evil commits its evil acts on the ground of incorrectly interpreted motives, it is unaware of the future consequences of its actions.

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¹ The ‘goodness’ of the existence in society lies in this.