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No, we're not.

First off, lets be clear...evil isn't some abstract, hard to define thing. Evil is simply a word we give things that are of the utmost social taboo. The things that happen in our societies that do irreparable damage to small and large portions of our community, because while we are inherently self-centered in many respects, we are also inherently co-dependant, empathetic, and an overall highly social species. We need the acceptance, respect, and love of others to thrive. As such, we mostly do our best to please people.

People tend to think there is so much "evil" in our world, mostly because one, we have unprecedented access to information and news from all around the world, highlighting every tragic thing that happens, and two, because our international relationships we foster these days are something we're frankly not designed for. Humanity has spent thousands of years living in very small, tight knit communities, where basically everyone knew everyone, everyone looked like their neighbour, spoke the same language, etc......now we live in communities of thousands or even millions of people, and through the internet, we've essentially become one massive community of billions. That sort of thing could never go over without some pretty major conflicts.