Since those terms have been mentioned recently, let’s talk a little about them.
Naturally, people have many different definitions of “good” and “evil”. Some believe “good” is doing what a God wants, and “evil” is the opposite of that. Some think “good” is helping people, and “evil” is being selfish, caring only for yourself. To some, “good” is doing what others expect of you, obeying authority, and so on. And many people don’t even believe in those concepts themselves - they believe they are just labels applied by Man.
Thinking a bit about it, I mostly agree with the Ayn Rand / Objectivist concept: “good” is whatever promotes life - not simply survival, but life as a rational being. “Evil”, then, is whatever promotes death - not just a physical death, but death of the self, death of your soul, death of your joy to live - a kind of “living death” (and I’m not talking about zombies :)).
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