The question posed at the end of class today was whether or not evil could be used as a way to describe or diagnose a person.  While a person’s actions can be looked upon as evil, the person themselves may be a kind person in other situations.  For example, some murderers committed vicious crimes, yet people who knew and loved them before could not ever believe that they did such a thing.  If they are normal people, then a turning point must have occurred for them to commit such a horrible act.  But what if there was no obivious turning point?  Could we then assume that a person has just become evil?  However, evil is most likely just a safe term for people.  If an event is so horrid, that no one can explain what caused it, then they would turn to the supernatural.  Humans never like to be unsureof things, because it scares them.  So, maybe it was a sudden change of the mind, a terrible life, or maybe it really was the supernatural that caused this evil to happen.  But only the person who committed the evil could tell us for sure.  But if people are so afraid of evil, then why would they ever listen to this “evil” person?  This just goes to show that we must come to terms with evil before we can ever truly get a grasp of its true meaning.