Once, I took part in a seminar with a jury. He said something like after the years of practise in his profession, he had only met about two people, who were embodiment of evil.

I don't think people are evil by nature. It would be illogical. Survival has always been a group effort. And survival is all biology is about.

It is very often social injustice, which makes people commit bad things. At least, it applies to people in developed countries, where we are learnt some manners. True, people can become angry because they are not born rich or pretty. But it is rary the primary reason to do something leading to be considered evil by general public.

I believe in Norway's system of justice, where being sent to prison is like having a free long-lasting holiday. The people who commit crimes, because they were wronged before, could be sent there. Statistics speak in favor of this system as in Norway, the least number of criminals returns to prison after they are released.

On the other hand, I am against applying this benevolent attitude to everyone. Crimes like rapes, terrorism happen must be hapenning for other reasons than the ones stated in previous paragraph. There could be a discussion about politicians stealing stuff. These crimes are motivated rather by greed or by some irrational beliefs, which are strong and probably unfixable if they lead to terrorist attacks;

However, evil has to persevere. If we had no evil, we would not value good. We would even lose ability to identify evil. And utopian society, as we know, has never worked and is not likely to ever function properly. At least not in this century.

About every-day evil. I am convinced, people try to stick to their comfort zone. If an employer behaves badly to his employs, he likely thinks its the easiest way to motivate them. Some people may use wrong words in a sentence, even though they didn't mean to hurst somebody by their words. General knowledge of basic psychology rules would help. But school system... it would make for another article or two.