de·o·dand [dee-uh-dand]
noun English Law.
(before 1846) an animal or article that, having been the immediate cause of the death of a human being, was forfeited to the crown to be applied to pious uses.
There are no evil things, that idea is a silly holdover from superstitious and savage times.
There are evil people. Try to run a country as a master race or dream of world domination and you always get what you deserve.
It is ironic that the most powerful weapons known to man have done more to preserve peace than any hot air from lunatics.
Weapons are just a physical manifestation of ideology.
War is just an insane idea that promotes the killing of others based on ideology. It is a great part of human history. It tells us much of human nature and nothing of objects.