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The phrase "are evil for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a reason or justification for labeling something as evil or wrong.
Example: "Many believe that certain actions are evil for the harm they cause to others."
Alternatives: "are wrong for" or "are harmful for".
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Karl Marx repeadedly claimed all liberals are evil for society.
Tell me one experiment I should do that proves once and for all whether computers are evil for the brain".
However, in our current British political state of two-party rutting, the Tories we hear, are "evil" for wishing their children to attend brilliant schools, for keeping wealth within bloodlines, for quibbling about tax-raises, for harbouring property portfolios, for choosing private health care and for employing home helps.
"How could they be so arrogant to think they could get away with it, and have no conscience about it, and just to destroy people's lives in this way, just for money and just for sheer greed, and is it greed that's all that it's about - they say money's the root of all evil and they are evil for what they've done," she said.
The website Vegetarians Are Evil, for instance, makes such meaningless revelations as identifying Genghis Khan as a vegetarian.
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"There are certain elements of the church that I can't accept like homosexuality is evil, for instance.
It is just as well they have promised not to be evil, for Google's shareholders will need all the benevolence from their dictators they can get.
It would clearly be "evil," for example, if Gmail users' private messages were read by Google employees, rather than mindless computer programs.
I believe it is evil for drug companies to possess a means of saving lives and then not providing it to the desperate people who need it.
At least his character has a bit of understandable motivation – better than Doctor Harris, who just seems to be evil for its own sake.
Crime was never Hughes's interest, evil was, and to be evil, for her, is to be intolerant of others, of the very fact of the existence of something outside the self.
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