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Firstly, we need good things in order to do evil actions; power, intelligence, and even existence are all goods when taken in themselves. Secondly, no one ever does evil solely for the sake of doing evil, but for the sake of obtaining some good.
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Check your logical form there...
I'll simplify:
A=good
B=evil
In order to perform B, we must have traits of A.
The motivations for doing B are to attain A.
Neither of those suggest that A must have B to exist. It suggests that B must have A. Which is what we're saying...good isn't depenant on evil, but that it is evil that depends on good.