An idea from Summa Theologica

Evil isn’t a thing in its own right. Evil is the absence of the good, which is natural and due to a thing. You aren’t evil for lacking a lion’s strength, which was never yours to have. Blindness is an evil because sight belongs to a human eye.

From Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas

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