The Problem With Calling Things Evil

By calling someone evil, one others the evil and objectifies the evildoer.  In calling something evil, one stops asking why.  Why?  Why did the evil happen?  If one says Osama bin Laden was evil, one doesn’t examine what made a man a terrorist and allows opportunity for more terrorism– more evil– to manifest because we are not addressing its causes except to suggest that we have no control over them.