What Evil Means to UsC. Fred Alford interviewed working people, prisoners, and college students in order to discover how people experience evilin themselves, in others, and in the world. What people meant by evil, he found, was a profound, inchoate feeling of dread so overwhelming that they tried to inflict it on others to be rid of it themselves. A leather jacketed emergency medical technician, for example, one of the many young people for whom vampires are oddly