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The point, I think, is that injury is 'bad', not 'evil'. That is, say I bang my shin against a coffee table. It would be 'better' if I had not banged my shin. Part of my argument requires the possibility of a distinction between one thing's being bad (my banging my shin and feeling pain) and the potentiality for that thing being good (it's good that I'm the sort of thing that feels pain when he bangs his shin).
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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