No, we are not. Furthermore, VERY few people ever see, much less commit evil acts.
Let me put it this way, if evil is defined as being conscious and deliberate wrongdoing, then Hitler was not evil, neither was Stalin, nor dozens of other murderous scum throughout history. All of them did what they did because they believed they had the right to do so. Even your average thug has a tendency to believe that the rules don't really apply to them, that their crimes are somehow justified by their situation. Only sociopaths as a group tend to make their choices in full awareness/acknowledgement that what they are doing is wrong, and even there, exceptions exist.
But let me answer your question more directly instead of redefining the issue. Regardless of how you choose to define the term evil (assuming you use a definition that makes any sense whatsoever), the answer is still no. Human beings are best described as a potential, our basic nature is ultimately a product of our own instinctive urges and environmental programming. But nothing about that nature prevents us from CHOOSING a path to take, whether because of, or in spite of, those urges. You might be able to get away with declaring a particular individual, or even possibly a social group as a whole, as evil. But humanity itself? no way.
Let me put it this way, if evil is defined as being conscious and deliberate wrongdoing, then Hitler was not evil, neither was Stalin, nor dozens of other murderous scum throughout history. All of them did what they did because they believed they had the right to do so. Even your average thug has a tendency to believe that the rules don't really apply to them, that their crimes are somehow justified by their situation. Only sociopaths as a group tend to make their choices in full awareness/acknowledgement that what they are doing is wrong, and even there, exceptions exist.
But let me answer your question more directly instead of redefining the issue. Regardless of how you choose to define the term evil (assuming you use a definition that makes any sense whatsoever), the answer is still no. Human beings are best described as a potential, our basic nature is ultimately a product of our own instinctive urges and environmental programming. But nothing about that nature prevents us from CHOOSING a path to take, whether because of, or in spite of, those urges. You might be able to get away with declaring a particular individual, or even possibly a social group as a whole, as evil. But humanity itself? no way.
