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It's too big an ethical discussion to be had on a thread of this kind but I too believe in evil acts not evil people.
Those acts can become habitual and infectious but I think all people are capable of falling into the trap of doing evil things and experimenting with evil ideas.
There are some things universally accepted as evil but much of it is subjective too.
Hitler was a war hero before becoming the most notorious national leader in modern history and refused to gas cities (because of his experiences in the trenches of WWI) that didn't stop him from bombing cities to rubble but that was happening on both sides.
He also encouraged his underlings to gas millions of people (largely Jews as in his warped view they were responsible for WWI). He started a war which killed millions a large number of which were non-combatants out of a sense of outrage at how Germany was treated after WWI. He wasn't a demon but a human doing what he thought was right, that's the problem with evil.
Imagining him as different from anyone else underplays the infectious danger of evil.
That's why the PT is such a letdown as Star Wars could have been the ultimate modern parable for how even the most noble of people can be corrupted by taking the dark path.