"Evil as excess 

I removed the following phrase:
It has been suggested that not all evil is due to a privation; malaria, for example, is due to not a lacking, but an excess (in this case, of disease).[6]
It was referred to a "Beginner's guide" and as such is not very convincing. In this way any type of evil may be explained: as an excess of a particular "carrier of evil". But it is clearly a logical blunder: it is simply a regression ("sweeping under the carpet" of the issue): it does not explain how the "carrier of evil" have got the evil to carry. To explain it for a layman: the fridge may be described as a "carrier of cold", but it does not bring "cold" (although we may colloquially say so): in fact, it removes heat.