The philosophy of good and evil in humanity

        The article the I read states theories on the beliefs of the of evil in humanity.  Some state that evil will never leave this world, others say that evil can be removed since it wasn't on Earth from the beginning of time. There's a lot of controversy on the subject. The best idea of evil to me in modern society is what i'm going to call the ying-yang theory.  It's that there needs to be evil in the world to keep in balance with the good and complement it.  As the author says without evil in the world we would never see the good.  This is true since if everyone was good and never did an "evil" thing it would just be plain normal and have no extra name for it.  Although the interesting part of the article is it seems to keep stressing the fact that the world needs evil, but with millions of death to innocent people, I would go with society being cleansed.  What is evil though, as the article is about it's part in society, but never does it actually describe what being evil is.  If you steal is that an evil action? Is murder or anarchy it either?  This really makes me think about life and how anyone could have traits of evil with in themselves.  In my opinion while I don't believe it's possible to get rid of evil in their thoughts, they can control their actions to be good and if more people did this humanity would at least have the illusion of goodness.