Absolutely Evil

[Boromir88]

Now I'm slightly confused. Do you mean that crossing into other people's morals is evil or that causing physical harm is evil...or both?

Sorry Kuru, for being confusing, I mean to say there there is a line between morals and what is good/evil. And that crossing the line bye physically (or even emotionally harming someone- because of their morals, or for whatever reason that matter) is indeed evil.

Take Hitler, he didn't like anyone that was of the "Superior Race," but what made him "evil" was the attempted mass genocide of all the "inferior races/peoples." Hope that's a little more clearer, sorry for getting everything all jumbled.

Perhaps Tolkien's thoughts on orcs may shed some more light on the matter as well:

They would be Morgoth’s greatest Sins, abuses of his highest privilege, and would be creatures begotten of Sin, and naturally bad (I nearly wrote ’irredeemably bad’; but that would be going too far. Because by accepting or tolerating their making - necessary to their actual existence - even Orcs would become part of the World, which is God’s and ultimatly good.)~Letter #153

So, we can say Orcs were brought into this world as "evil" being Morgoth's "greatest sins," but even they were not beyond redemption.