Intentions can be evil, sure, and when that's the case, we need to have mechanisms in place that prevent or minimize harm. AND we need to carefully examine the mechanisms to make sure that they don't have implications that are harmful in some situations. 

I agree with what you are saying. I'm trying to explain that I didn't say anything that contradicts that. 

Intentions don't arise in a vacuum because of somebody's inherent nature in isolation. I use system as a wide term. It includes belief systems, value systems, sociocultural norms and a wide variety of conditions that influence intentions. I use mechanism as a wide term too, including causal chains and defense mechanisms and group dynamics and bugs in the code and unforeseen or intentionally neglected biproducts.

Accountability is of course needed because we live in a relative world where people's actions, or refraining from action (which can also be regarded as action) affect other people.

I don't care if people choose to call Hitler, Stalin, or other massmurderers evil. By all means, go ahead. It's kind of a duh thing. Easy to do in retrospect. They are guilty as fuck. Does it help? I mean now that they are all dead anyway - of course it helps if we manage to stop them. Validating the experiences of the victims is of course important. I wouldn't correct victims that call their abusers evil. In the present, once someone like that is in power, we are already screwed. I salute resistence. However, I think we would be better off if we could also work with the mechanisms that lead people to have such intentions and to act on them. Saying that the Holocaust was made possible because Hitler and other nazis were evil won't prevent it from happening again. If anything, it leads to a false sense of safety, because people think that if we are not evil it can't happen again. Evil is seen as something other, something isolated, something extreme. Here in Sweden I have seen politicians who are involved with organized nazis come to influence, democratically chosen based on a programme that was almost identical to the one in Hitler's Germany, and a number of incidents have occurred that remind of the development back then. I call that stuff out. I point to the similarities and risks, to how one thing leads to another. Lots of people get offended, because that's not like Hitler. But Hitler didn't start with the Holocaust right away. First there was a development that gradually changed people's values and normalized ideas that would previously not have been accepted. That's how it happens. 

My aunt voted for that party. She didn't start out evil. She is bitter after her son was killed at a young age in a work accident because the boss didn't prioritize security and because doctors won't take her health issues seriously, and she found a belief system that gives her something to blame, someone to hate. The nazis killed autistic people too, people like me. Somehow she refuses to see the implications of the politics that she votes for and the ideas that they plan to set in motion. When I was a kid, her home was like a home to me. To say that it is her intention to take away all security there ever was for people like me would not be fair. I think she should be informed enough to see what kind of suggestions the politicians she votes for make, but somehow she's in denial, and she lives in a society that has over the last years come to normalize decisions, actions, ideas that would never have been accepted before that gradual change happened. Do I still blame her? Yes. Do I think that her evil nature explains it? No. 

What I find highly problematic is all the cases when people refuse to see extremely harmful actions as evil or even just simply wrong because the persons who committed those actions are not like Hitler. They couldn't possibly have meant it, people seems to think, and therefore they must have had a reason, so the victim just can't be that innocent. The victim shouldn't have moved, or should have moved. The victim should have answered when spoken to, or shouldn't have answered, or should have had a different voice. The victim shouldn't have looked so scary. The victim shouldn't have been outside while being black, or autistic with divergent eye contact. And so the institutionalized racism and ableism are justified, and these things keep happening.

I have a friend who hasn't been able to leave his bed for a couple of years, due to a number of illnesses and disabilities and divergences that complicate each other in a way that makes it impossible for him to get help from any of the available systems. He is forced to lie there in his own shit. In trying to help him claim his rights, I have seen unbelievably many totally normal people change from treating him like a fellow human being to calling him manipulative for asking for water and other absurdities. Many who work within the care system or social services want to help first, and they just can't believe how badly he has been treated. Then they gradually notice how impossible the situation is. How it is all a catch-22. And so they start to makes hints that maybe he should just try to not have some of the difficulties that he has, as if he hasn't already been trying for far too long and only gotten worse from it. If he doesn't exhaust himself by doing what would cost him a month of much worse health in a situation that is already unbearable, then they start resenting him. If he does harm himself like that, because he sees no other choice, then they assume that he was exaggerating all along, and so they resent him for that. They start to demand even more from him, leading to more situations that only lead to resentment from them and increasingly poor health from him. Then they start comparing notes and legitimize each other's decisions and actions. Surely he must just be faking it. Or maybe he is deluding himself. It's not like we would let anyone lie in his own shit for a couple of years and yell at him for it if it wasn't really his own fault. We are doing him a favor by not accepting his delusion, they say. Systems give rise to evil.