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This is interesting! I think you’re right in that evil actions can stem from not using gifts the way they’re meant to be used. I agree with the fact that people sometimes seek power in order to gain a feeling of self-worth and use revenge as a tool to gain “justice.” Here are my thoughts on how desires can be perverted (just ideas):

Love/relationships (not just romantic relationships, but friends, employees, family, etc): manipulation, self-serving without giving to the other person, utilizing relationships for money and status, etc. Essentially, not seeing people as human beings with needs, but using them merely as a tool to serve one’s own ends.

Freedom – insubordination, rebelling simply for rebellion’s sake and not toward meaningful ends.

Community/belonging – giving into peer-pressure, doing bad things to be accepted and “cool,” codependency.

Happiness – hedonistic but not in a good way. Greed, obsessions with obtaining money/possessions, stealing.

Value/personal worth – workaholism, “producing” and performing for love, seeking one’s own vainglory, materialism, using people to gain status, manipulation for sympathy, needing to be seen as “the hero,” attention-seeking, bullying, abusing one’s own authority/power/beauty/charm to harm people.

Hope and peace for the future – needing to be in control of everything – people, events, etc.