@Turkleton Paganism is closer than other religions / philosophies in answering the question of why evil exists because fundamentally it acknowledges how dark energy is inseparable from the physics of the universe, that doesn't mean people should be evil but evil is not just a thing people do but is also a fundamental law of physics like in hermeticism how its an alchemical property and not a question of morality. Loki is evil and was adopted by odin and raised with the other gods and this is kind of like ancient race realism, loki is a different race of supernatural beings than the other supernatural beings raising him and because of his nature he betrays them and kills baldur and plots against humans, also on a more superficial level there is something metaphorical about human nature where people adopted by another race even a race better than them like when a nigger is adopted by a white family will hate their adopted family because its not an environmental things its a genetic thing, they know they're supposed to be with their own. You could also view loki as the father of jews which is kind of a schizo theory but think about what jews are , they're subhumans pretending to be white, jews are adopted by white countries, jews betray white countries, white people kick them out. Jews view themselves as corrupted by goodness because jews are for the most part half white half semitic and they strive to become more jewish i.e. more evil while also blending in with white people by maintaining this perfect alchemical genetic almost perfect 50/50 genetic split regulated through the mother.