Were Men never truly evil?

[Cazoz]

It is therefore unfair to compare creatures born of evil to those who are not, if a little flawed.

I don't think you've quite got the gist of what I posted. I was in no way comparing Men to those fell creatures, I was using them as examples of races which were truly evil (i.e. born evil) as opposed to Men who weren't. And yet both did ill deeds on their time on Middle Earth.

My question/statement was concerning Men and how Tolkien never had truly evil, only corrupted Men. You may be correct regarding your Children theory however, I cannot think of anything to refute that.

Do we think this was a purposeful continuity of Tolkien's, or it simply worked out that Men were the weakest in mind and thus the most frequently corrupted by those stronger in mind and cunning?