As much as Hollywood would like us to believe that life is a constant battle between the forces of evil v. the forces of good, which perhaps makes for an engrossing drama, the truth of the matter of what evil really is, is actually far more pedestrian. In actual fact, though evil may give the appearance of being a great and powerful force, it really is not; for that which is evil, is what which has walked away from the Light, that which has walked away from the good, in order to embrace instead that which is dark and destructive, and therein lies its ultimate dilemma; for evil lacks the necessary fuel to sustain itself perpetually, and therefore try as it might, evil, has to, at least, periodically, come up for air, or it simply will not be able to sustain itself.
Further to the point, because evil is the absence of good, those that are evil and are doing bad acts, can become good, simply by changing their mindset and thereby performing instead, good acts. This signifies that a far more constructive way to look upon evil is that because evil exists, we are thereby able to see the contrast between those that perform selfish and diabolical acts as compared to those that are selfless and caring for others. In other words, the fact that there is evil being committed, should embolden us to want to be virtuous, ourselves; because we see the harm and hurt that evil does and therefore do not desire to follow such by our own conscious volition.
God has provided each one of us with free will, and by virtue of that free will we are entitled to try out different things, of which, not all those decisions subsequently so made are going to work out all that well. The fact that we do make errors, mistakes, and commit wrongs, does not make us evil; rather, what makes us evil is the knowing that what we are doing isn’t right, as well as deliberately overriding our own good common sense, by insisting upon our right to keep on doing what we shouldn’t be doing, thereby bringing harm to others as well as harm to our own being.
We are each provided with choices, and each one of us has a given role to play in life, of which, what we actually do and say, defines us as a person, and reflects fairly our true character. All those that stand on the side of right and good, though they may well be cheated, treated unjustly, or physically vanquished by those evil acts so made against them, will, if they keep the faith, receive their just dues for having stood true. All those, on the other hand, that do wrong, more times than not, will have to face the music, of a tune that they have played and written by their own wicked deeds in this life, and until they can take that which has been created in disharmony and make it thus harmonious, they will suffer the pangs of a life that is wrong, for not having done right.