DougR,

No, I don't think evil is in the eye of the beholder--particularly when we are talking about the banality of evil, and how often the majority colludes with it.

Although I do agree there is sometimes widespread disagreement on acts of evil and evildoers within a society that is sustaining evil acts and evil doers, as has been the case throughout history. For instance, many people around the world now agree that what the Bush administration is doing in the Middle East, is evil. And I would include the acts committed in the name of the US in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel, as well as in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many people internationally also view the unilateral abrogation of the nuclear treaties by the Bush administration to be acts of evil.

Another exampleis 9/11. Not too many people in the world see the events of 9/11 in any terms but evil ones, except for a small minority of people who support the evil acts of those evil doers.