How Evil Are You ?

Is There an Equation ?

How can we live in a world that is increasingly full of Evil? was the question that started this whole thing. Well, I like to focus on the good in the world and be proactive, I said: “Better to light up a candle than curse the darkness.” But questions remained: how evil is the world? Is it really more evil than in the past? How evil am I, how evil are you, what about Dr. Evil? What even is evil?

Wouldn’t it be easier if there was some sort of equation to measure evilness? And so here we’ll try and possibly fail in making one, but hopefully we’ll learn a thing or two along the way.

 ⚠️ This is strictly an academic thought exercise (maybe a futile one) 
as themes of morality are notoriously hard to pin down and are very 
nuanced, so please don't go starting a cult, religion, or try to justify 
your actions solely based on this.

Where to start ?

How about I just give you the formula and we can go from there ? Here it is:

As equations go, it’s fairly mundane, just the sum of a product times a Harm component H times the number of instances I. The interesting part is what’s…