Is the Night King truly evil?

Yeah he is destructive but with the regards to being evil it is a practical question considering this is a land where Dragons were essentially a norm. Evil itself is an abstract concept.

Dany can be described as evil as she didn't need to burn the Tarly's, Cersai can be described as truly evil because well there is a long list, Jon is technically an abomination seeing how he rose from the dead, Arya is a psycho who will kill on a whim and Bran has the ability to stop all the dicking around and just tell everyone where they need to be to end this shit.

So if we stop saying the Night's King is truly evil as really he is looking after his people like everyone else in the game. I think he kind of think that maybe he can be argued as another spoke on the wheel that Dany talks about. He only rises like the houses when the conditions are right for him, when nature is out of whack he's been feed with soldiers and no-one is organised to stop him. For him to be kept down, like the houses of Westeros, the people have to work together to prevent it.

So to truly stop him and prevent him from rising again then the have to view why he rose and address that as well as realising their petty war is not really important.

Samwell calls the Night King "evil incarnate" in Ep 5 of Season 6. That's more than good enough for me.

Oh I agree he needs to be cut down I just don't think he is evil in the sense we tend to use.

If anything there is more sense of singular purpose and trust in his army because he is in complete control. His army is more 'pure' in its sense of motives as the living and other players could very easily each be the bad guy or teetering to being toppled and replaced with a more violent reign.

Dany and Cersai can be described as more evil than the Night King in the normal sense we use as both have an end game of demanding absolute loyalty and are prepared to destroy those who will not give it to them.

Cersai is cruel and willing to burn all she sees as her enemy and even though Dany's motives can at the moment be described as wanting to put an end to the war but she still is after a throne. She's not against telling people who have no reason to trust her to bend the knee and does kill them when they say she has given them no reason to do so outside fear. In Jon's forces there is underlying treachery and discontent bubbling under the surface with the hint of violence.

With the Nights King there is no betrayal, no treachery, no scheming from any one you are either part of his army or you are breathing and that is it. No shades of grey. you won't see him burning children as a show of force or to scare others into submission, there is no turning on each other among his ranks.

I'm just saying that without his motives being shown we can't say he is truly more evil than those other players if anything the name 'the others' is a better description of him and the Wights as he is just so alien the only thing he is comparable to is nature itself.