Re: What is evil?
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Gordon Gecko was the Michael Douglas character in the movie Wall Street. He was an immoral investment banker (or Wall Street analyst or something like that) and his most famous line was "Greed is Good."
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Clearly qualifying him as non-evil in the Woods/Sklansky definition. He believed that by acting in his own self interest he made the markets more efficient thus benefiting all of us. You can disagree with him, but he was not acting in the interest of causing harm.
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