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This is also clearly wrong. Oskar Schindler was a Nazi, for instance, that meaning a member of the Nazi Party. If that itself is the evil, then it isn't existential, someone could have been a member while ignorant of the purpose of the organization, or could quit and begin fighting it themselves. That's not ontological evil, that's moral evil.I think it comes directly from the Nazi thing. Someone in a philosophy 101 class said that Nazis are an example of ontological evil.
I think it is doubtful there even is any such thing as ontological evil, because it involves entities incapable of change, that is, incapable of thought, and an entity incapable of thought is incapable of evil, which is a choice. So I suppose you could say something like zombies would be "ontologically evil" but they aren't even capable of morality. It would be as ridiculous to claim that a boulder that fell on you was ontologically evil, when it's only evil because it's evil towards you.