User blog comment:Howling Darkness/Meruem: Good or Evil?/@comment-14902757-20140710074559

"Good or Bad" is a relative term while "Good or evil" contains absolute values. Meruem was not evil but he was "bad" for humans - he was a threat to humanities existence. You wouldn't call a lion "evil" for killing and eating its prey, would you? So the same applies for Meruem. I believe the concept of evil is once one's view of morality is crossed, that's when something is declared evil. For example, if a man raped a 5 year old girl, then that's evil. Could it be relatively good? No. Can the word "bad" alone describe such act? No. The spectrum of good to bad does not apply because a moral understanding is involved. In the case of ants and humans, as long as the two (who could both talk/understand each other) have not coexisted and a conceptual agreement of what is moral and not moral is not established, then we will continue to see them as only "bad or good" and never "evil"  - only predation-prey values would exist.