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I think psychopaths would be the only people that you could qualify as evil. They lack any type of empathy or regard for the welfare, rights, or property of others and usually actively attempt to violate the rights, welfare, and property of others to gain whatever they see as valuable. But there aren't that many psychopaths. Not every murderer or rapist or similar is a psychopath; in fact most aren't. So if there was a dichotomy then, those people must be good.
I don't think that if you aren't evil that necessarily makes you good though, if there is any sort of classification system of this sort then it would definitely work on a continuum. And would a truly good person never act selfishly or do anything that harmed others? If so then there must be no truly good people in the world, which I would find it extremely discouraging.
Maybe there aren't good and evil people but good and evil acts. And acts that are neither.
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