Mistakes aren't evil. Intentional harm is evil & the degree doesn't matter. I can wish for something rotten to occur but if I choose not to act on the thought or emotion, then no harm done to anyone, myself included. To commit an act of harm on someone is evil. It's only the degree of the act that determines how evil. No evil is worst when it causes the loss of life. Put a gun to someone's head pull the trigger & watch them die. Pure evil, nothing worst. Start a war, pure evil. Slander someone's good name intentionally is evil but not to the same degree, doing it unintentionally is poor judgement or a mistake, the thought of it is nothing but a thought. There are people that start off evil & change, then there are those that don't & end up rotten to the core & then there are those that just are evil from jump street & die that way & lastly there are those that come into this world & go out never harming a soul. Why? Who the hell knows the best any of us can do for the rest is to never cause harm anyone, ever.
Barry