This is about a concisely and trenchantly as it can be stated -- bravo! To water it down is unequivocally serious denial.

"Evil" in this case is an inescapable description. That said, the finality of evil you allude to got me thinking of "The Lord of the Rings." Tolkien implies that no one is born evil, that people become evil when they seek power, and that achieving total power turns them totally evil. There's that scene in the movies where Galadriel becomes terrifying by imagining the Ring was hers.

The movie "Triangle of Sadness" (which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2022) shows how being very rich turns people sociopathic, as psychological studies have shown.

I'm not diminishing evil. It just seems a flaw in human society that the way is so wide open for people to gain as much power as they want, knowing that they will become so evil as a result.