Alignment question: Judge Death and killing for the sake of killing alone

[Krellen]

@OV- what makes killing people evil?

I'm not OV, but - The SRD does:

"Evil" implies hurting, oppressing, and killing others. Some evil creatures simply have no compassion for others and kill without qualms if doing so is convenient. Others actively pursue evil, killing for sport or out of duty to some evil deity or master.

Hurting, oppressing, killing. That's the definition of evil.

Things without intelligence (or with animal intelligence) get a pass, mainly because they don't wontonly kill. If an animal kills, it's for one of three reasons: 1) territory, 2) food, 3) defense. Those situations don't really fall under the purvue of "evil", especially since one can escape said death just by running far enough away. An animal never kills because it's "convenient".