The concrete human evil of treason is that the traitor's loyalty to the cause, and with it the moral relations that bound the community together, have been broken and cannot be restored to their previous state.
I also recall a comment that I heard from a pastor after I gave a presentation on Egypt as a monster in Ezekiel, he said "how will we talk about evil in a concrete way if you take Egypt away from the narrative?" Once I came across an article that raises the question "Before Hitler, Who Was the Stand-In for Pure Evil," the answer was given in the subtitle "The Egyptian Pharaoh, of Course".
The concentration camp became the place where those metaphorical evils could be rendered concrete and visible.
Given that the preceding observations are rather obvious ones, one might have expected that discussions of the argument from evil would have centered mainly upon concrete formulations of the argument.
It is a break down of Christian Truth, family values, charity and repentance of wrong doing when we do not have fixed, concrete, foundations in the Gospel about the reality of evil and Satan and sin.
But once one shifts to probabilistic formulations of the argument from evil, the situation is very different: details about concrete cases of evil may be evidentially crucial.
Although President Bush has included North Korea in an "axis of evil" along with Iraq and Iran, his administration has made no concrete steps so far to compel North Korea to dismantle its nuclear program.
As I see it, those who fear the devil are not intentionally directed at an abstract object that encodes being evil etc. Rather, they are directed at a concrete object that exemplifies being evil.
In section 1.4, a much more concrete version of an incompatibility argument was set out, which, rather than appealing to the mere existence of some evil or other, appealed to specific types of evil in particular, situations where animals die agonizing deaths in forest fires, or where children undergo lingering suffering and eventual death due to cancer.
