The Meaning of Evil (Part 1)
The key meaning of evil is that ‘something that doesn’t *fit* into an expected boundary line and/ or a specific arena’. That is, evil can be defined as a violation within a specific field where rules apply and violations warrant penalties. Penalty boxes, prisons, slums, vagrancies, outcasts, wanderings, ….whatever is ‘outside’ the ‘legal box’ of comfiture is ‘evil’ by definition–especially, in the sense of derogation from which they are called ‘places of penalty’.