What is the difference in evil and mental illness?

Say someone killed someone, how do you know it was mental illness or just evil?

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One of them judges on a moral scale; the other evaluates on a scale of mental health. They do not compete since anyone could be either or both.

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@greenmountaingal That is how I was thinking too. They are not the same and can't be compared.