In my experience evil is a fruit grown from one of two seeds of desire: either it comes from an individual or group need to impose order, or more precisely their vision of order; or it comes from a need for catharsis by watching the world burn as some part of it descends into anarchy. Both seeds can grow into fruits of atrocious acts of evil.
At the same time, no one individual or group is all bad. You can pick any person or organization and find something good to say about them. I think that is often a good exercise, as long as we don't publicize our thoughts on that (taken out of context they could be interpreted as support of an evil groups broader actions). That Mussolini made the trains run on time is sometimes given as an example. It doesn't change who Mussolini was, or the horrors perpetrated under his command.
Individuals within an evil empire can also have better moral character relative to the others in the empire. Rommel is a case in point. That doesn't change that they participated in the commission of atrocities. It's worth noting that Rommel tried to stop Hitler, Operation Valkyrie.
At the same time, no one individual or group is all bad. You can pick any person or organization and find something good to say about them. I think that is often a good exercise, as long as we don't publicize our thoughts on that (taken out of context they could be interpreted as support of an evil groups broader actions). That Mussolini made the trains run on time is sometimes given as an example. It doesn't change who Mussolini was, or the horrors perpetrated under his command.
Individuals within an evil empire can also have better moral character relative to the others in the empire. Rommel is a case in point. That doesn't change that they participated in the commission of atrocities. It's worth noting that Rommel tried to stop Hitler, Operation Valkyrie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Valkyrie