in many european languages, "mal" means small, and also evil

this is because evil is small

evil is laziness, evil is desire to gain for a lower cost than the task requires

evil people are "petty" which is actually a french word that means "small" (petit)

not saying that serious efforts are not required to keep this thing outside the gates but to say it can ever dominate is absurd

by definition, that which only knows how to sabotage, sabotages itself

it is not scary

the whole thing about being scary, is like how cats arc their backs and their hair stands up, or those australian frill neck lizards that have a flappy thing that opens up wide to make the lizard look bigger

evil is good at making itself seem bigger than it is

but it is by definition small