I'm going to go ahead and play devil's advocate here.
Right and wrong are constructs formed by humanity; similar to time, which is also argued to not exist. Everything is relative and there are no universal truths or morals. Making change can have unintended butterfly effect consequences.
We are all just specs of dust in the wind.
You are arguing about things that exist in and of themselves. Truth doesn't exist by that way of thinking. Love doesn't exist. Fear doesn't exist. Violence doesn't exist. Etc. Words are created to reference and communicate about ways to describe reality. You need to understand this, not limit the use of words to describe reality. Actions that create harm are violent. Violence exists through the expression of certain actions. Being willful and intent on hurting others is describable with the word evil.
Fair enough, but what if you had the opportunity to end all suffering? Would you do it? What if you found out that your actions halted evolution? Would you bring it back?
What do you think about yin-yang, two-sides-to-every-coin, everything is as it should be philosophy.
Hmmm, the more I think about it, the more I conclude that truth, love, fear, and violence are not human created constructs. love and fear are just emotions, chemicals in the brain. Violence has a pretty clear cut definition, as does truth.
Right and Wrong are based more on opinion; very strong opinions. Opinions that are usually very hard to disagree with. By your definition of evil above, abortion is evil under all circumstances. Self defense is evil. Correcting a dislocated shoulder, etc.
No pain, no gain.
Again, I'm playing devil's advocate here. I don't disagree with you I just didn't want to be a yes-man. I've taken this a bit too far though so I'm done arguing for argument's sake.
Willful intent on hurting those who did no harm. I forgot to specify more clearly, which can happen. Harming those who did harm is not evil. Self defense might harm someone who is harming, which makes it not violence, but force against violence.