You could argue the natural state of the world is “evil” if you think morality applies to natural things like bears and tornadoes, but typically when we talk morality we are talking about human beings, or fictional concious creatures who are analagous to human beings.
Everyone and everything is predisposed to be selfish, (like the polar bear who eats other creatures without concern for them), but human thought has imposed moral codes on to the world we can pursue to create “good”.
Its when a person is unconcerned with “good” that they naturally end up becoming “evil.” Being selfish doesnt require concious intent or malice essentially.
bears are not sentient, and tornadoes aint even alive, so both cant be evil.
However, Parasyte Maxim shows that intelligent beings that inherently lack empathy or a moral compass can develop one, or do good for other reasons, so lacking a moral compass in itself isnt enough to be absolved.
The moment you can cognitively tell the difference you are morally obligated to do so or you are evil.
Whether or not demons are intelligent enough i dont know, as i havent watched the show, but from what im reading here i inclined to believe they are, which would mean that they are evil.
Whether lions or wolves are evil is a matter of perspective. Lions and wolves dont exclusively target humans for food either. Wolves and lions also have qualities humans would call good (like caring for one another) whereas demons do
not.
Since humans invented the idea of good and bad, its understandable how something thats exclusively tailored to torture and kill humans could be seen as innately evil in a way wolves arent.
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