What is evil according to your beliefs?

It is my belief that evil is when public employees use public resources to commit acts of corruption. If a person is a civil servant, and receives a good living courtesy of taxpayer dollars, then that person ought to serve the public thankfully and faithfully. I have read of too many occurrences in the history of this country, even to the present day, of news story after news story highlighting instance after instance of public corruption in which the taxpayer is routinely defrauded, with no thought whatsoever given to the well-being of the taxpayer. A good Bible verse that illustrates this point can be found in 2 Peter chapter 2 verse 19 which reads, “While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.” What this verse indicates is that the problem of public corruption is more than 2,000 years old, and it is something that carries devastating consequences to mankind and the institution of nations.