Is most Evil ideological or sadistic

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Well, that too, yes, but also the idea of evil and the nirvana fallacy that some end up in, when trying to do good.

But ignorance is properly not the driving force, so why do we as most people do evil?

Because our ignorance is so vast. Making decisions on what I perceive as good, outweighed by the huge amount of truths I know nothing of, or are incorrect in my assumptions of. As far as those who seek to do evil for their own devices, their numbers dwindle. Hollywood is dying.

Why does everything destroy everything else in nature? To get ahead. Violence is a means to an end. It is the ultimate trump card and what every human conflict is reduced to. Nature is a battlefield. When a lion rips out a hyena's throat, we call that nature balancing itself. When species die, the weak kill the strong, etc.. we call it a wonderful balance. When humans do it, it's evil.

That is a part of it Another is that evil is subjective.

Culture doesn't applaud it, it suppresses it. Humans will kill their own mother.. Man is just another wild animal that culture tries to tame, and often it backfires. It actually seems like the more intelligent a species is, the more cruel and unrelated to its survival its violence tends to be. Dolphins are very cruel creatures for example. Chimps are pretty bad too.

Evil is a label just like Good.

Most evil is actually neither. The motivation behind it is the desire for power and dominance combined with a lack of empathy for others.

Not just a label. There are things you do not want done to you or for you. That is a definite judgmental state and not merely a label.

ruveyn

what if your empathy resides with the whole, and those small sects who oppose you may one day see the error in their ways, but until then, they cannot stop the march of progress, and must therefore have their rights removed, jailed, or shot. Which has happened far too often. By well-meaning people. Good is equality and collectivization, the evils of the world spring from the utter nonexistence of those two, and the power of production and distribution in the hands of the few, enslaving the masses. If Evil is a function of unjust economics, as the Left has long premised, then our assumption needs revision. Murder, then, isn't necessarily evil, so long as it is killing the forces that uphold the unjust system. That our own poor murder is a function of this unjust economic system. If wealth could be better redistributed, they would have their needs met, and not feel they have to shoot up a grocery store just to get by. The system makes criminals out of poor people, and lets the true criminals at the top get away with it. This thinking has propelled every revolution, where massive evil has taken place.

Are most murders committed with power and dominance as an intention? Most rapes? Most kidnappings? Most beatings? I ask it not fully knowing the answer myself.

I understand the lack of empathy, but one can desire to have power and dominance over their foes and lack empathy for them, without doing evil. That is essentially politics in West, and our limiting principle is our shared value system and cultural restraints that would make such a person who engaged in evil unfavorable amongst the masses.

Satan challenges us to think for ourselves, to question all things, to be strong as individuals, to face down our fears, to be creative, and to become ever more than we are.

So their for it is just a label.

I do not believe in terms of good or evil.

How about things you prefer and things you don't prefer?

ruveyn

What is your definition of "evil"? If it what I think it is then nothing I said is in conflict with the examples you gave.