Fundamental Anthropology: The Triple Vocation of Man: Holiness, Science, Arts
"Primitive society is familiar with odious behavior, jealousy, injustice, deception, greed, violence, war, genocide, and the list is not exhaustive. But it is on its guard. It knows that all these things are intrinsically unhealthy and that they can represent a double threat for it: a threat to its humanity, a threat to its sustainability.Primitive humanity knows that Evil does not elevate humanity, does not edify it, but endangers and degrades it. It is aware of the fact that it causes both the individual and society to lose their bearings, that it transgresses the rules and tramples on norms, even extinguishing the counter-fires carefully thought out by the ancestors to fight against indifferentiation and regression. Primitive society clearly identifies Evil, which constitutes in itself a source of possible indifferentiations and regressions capable of lowering humans below the level of animals. It knows, more than evolved societies, that this Evil is not enviable, and that in no way should it be encouraged, go unpunished, or worse, admired and held up as a model. Man who indulges in Evil does not, in fact, become an animal, but a being worse than the most savage beast, a Beast capable of all atrocities."
(Fundamental anthropology, p. 29)