Just for a change I'd like to disagree.
Good and evil are judgements, and quite necessary ones. Acts like genocide, murder, rape are all evil. By any standard, these are not good things to do or to have done to you, and this is the case whichever belief system you follow. The judgement comes from choosing to live within a human society, and submitting yourself to human justice, and we quite rightly punish people who commit these evils.
But then religion often intervenes and dictates what other things are "good" and "evil", and this is where most arguments begin - depending on which religion you follow, being in public without your husband is evil, being gay is evil.
On a universal level though good and evil are more difficult to define, because the universe is indifferent and infinite. Being murdered might not be a good thing to happen to you today, but if it means a faster journey to a better reincarnation and an escape from a hideous life who's to say that it wasn't a "good" thing from a wider perspective. The universe doesn't punish or reward, it just is.
Sal
