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Evil, defined as taking pleasure in someone else's unwanted pain, exists. And if we pretend it doesn't and look for other motives when evil was the driving force we get a mismatch between map and territory.
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Good/Love = My utility goes up as other peoples' utility increases. Evil/Hate = My utility goes up as other peoples' utility decreases.
As I tell my intermediate microeconomics students, only economists really understand love.
That might be a passable definition for personal evil, but it doesn't look adequate for institutional evil.