Is Evil Easily Understood? Is Evil Easily Defined As 'Mental Illness'?

I found this on a street corner one day.

Mental Illness does not discriminate.

Media programming does not discriminate between its victims.

Faulty ideas forward discrimination, but these ideas do not convince everyone to hate or do evil.

Evil does not discriminate, but people are somehow convinced they can 'see' evil people according to their dress, ethnic background, religious affiliation, etc..

Evil is sometimes interpreted or argued to be mental illness, and sometimes it is not.

Mental illness is not always 'evil', but is sometimes something else.

Evil is not always accurately defined as a mental illness, because evil is something very different.

Evil can be argued to cause mental illness.

Often times when an individual commits a popular crime (an offense widely shared in media), certain elements about that individual are highlighted in an effort to derive meaning.

An effort to understand by asking 'why?'

Similar to how the scientific method is applied to almost all things human.

A reasonable response could be: people don't exactly know 'why' all the time, yet people try.

Why is this?

The ways of things spirit are not always clear, especially in a world that often denies spirit is real.

Human pacifiers do not always provide for a desired outcome.

Media is a popular pacifier, an elixir, instigator, tool of deriving consensus.

There are plenty of examples of individuals who had a seemingly ideal upbringing, never were in need of something, yet they commit evil to much surprise.

For a troubled person, with a troubled upbringing and lifestyle, a logical conclusion is easier to understand.

Media programming is very influential.

Convinces people to hate strangers, blame people and things for the evil in the world.

Programming directors are often times irresponsible, biased, prejudiced, ignorant, arrogant, et al.

Some programmed media uses a brand of propaganda to misguide media consumers, yet do this in all earnestness and honesty (thinking their bias is right, their prejudice justified, their argument verifiable).

There are opposites and contradictions to all brands of programming.

Media typically frames perception and 'news' bits according to their own brand of bias and prejudice.

It is easier to point to inanimate objects, or exterior examples of evil, and conclude 'this is evil'.

But is this wholly accurate?

Like when the argument focuses on weapons when a weapon is not necessary to commit a horrible crime.

Evil's 'weapons' are not always manifested in physical terms.

Usually, media transfers analogies onto passive observers in an attempt to make a very poor logical conclusion ... typically full of fallacies.

Media latches onto near-correct assumptions without portraying greater depth.

This is a human flaw, not a 'media' flaw.

Evil is a human condition.

Popular consensus denies things unseen.

Passive consumers more often read headlines and sensationalized propaganda and can't tell the difference from fact-based journalism and poor attempts at truth.

What is 'truth' regarding this subject matter?

One man's religion teaches him to love their enemy.

Another man claims to believe the same religion, yet interprets hating and killing their enemy as an allowance, something justified, because they confuse man's laws with God's law.

Which one is right?

Does evil have a face that can be recognized?

Many people have attempted to place a face, a look, some exterior visual onto evil.

Is this possible?

Only for those who ignore the evil resident always around us, for some, residing always in themselves.

Temptation is not always a visual, but something more creeping.

So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Yeshua Christ our Lord! 

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. 

- Romans 7: 21-25