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The problem is the Ring gives the power to do good as well as evil. It wouldn't be so seductive to the Wise if it didn't. Gandalf fears that he would use the Ring to do good, so does Galadriel, & that's what they want to do. Gandalf would begin righteous & become self righteous. He would seek to bring about good & the end result would be evil. What the Ring would give him would be the power to defeat evil absolutely, but in this defeat he would become absolute dictator - an absolute dictator who would only do good, but who would have the power to stop anyone doing 'evil' (ie anything he considered 'evil'. And this is the point. Sauron (& Morgoth) probably didn't ever consider themselves 'evil' at all. They intended to re-shape the world in their own image. Hence, it could be argued that 'evil' is a label you stick on your enemy. Sauron quite probably considers Gandalf 'evil'. Remove Eru from the story & it all becomes subjective.
And yet, Eru makes the rules & lays down what is good & what is evil, & he does this with no better justification than that its 'his movie' - he's in charge & has ultimate power. Surely if Gandalf or Galadriel took the Ring they would do good. There's no reason to believe that they would behave like Sauron. Yet they would be evil simply because they had taken control & usurped the role of Eru. So, evil is not necessarily judged on what someone does, but on whether or not they attempt to be 'more' than Eru made them to be. If Galadriel took the Ring & made the whole of Middle-earth into Lorien that wouldn't be an 'evil' act in an objective sense - it would be quite a nice place to live. But it would be against Eru's plan. So, evil is whatever is against Eru's plan - even if the result was everyone living happily in peace & safety - not simply what Sauron (for example) did. Turning Middle-earth into Lorien is as 'evil' an act as turning it into Mordor. There's no way Galadriel, even with the Ring, would be responsible for the Mordorisation of Middle-earth.
Its not what most people would instantly think of as evil. Many readers of Tolkien would consider the Lorienisation of M-e as a victory for good. So, Sauron & Mordor are not 'ideals' of evil. Absolute power - whatever one does with it - is evil, because it is an attempt to take control away from Eru. Hence, if Eru destroys Numenor & slaughters thousands it is a 'good' act, because such destruction is Eru's prerogative. If Sauron had done exactly the same thing it would have been 'evil'. Its down to what you have an innate right to do rather than whether what you do makes things better or worse from a practical point of view. Gandalf with the Ring may have made the world a much nicer, safer, more pleasant place to live, but it would still have been 'evil', because he didn't have the right to do it.
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