Are good and evil abstract concepts?

I think possibly. I think we define them on emotions we feel. Things that make others feel "negative" emotions are "bad" whereas "positive" emotions are "good". Or maybe there's something altogether more complicated about emotion that nobody understands yet.

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IvanKaramazov

This is really simplistic. Murdering someone can make a serial killer feel "good" and no one defines what they do as good, no matter what they feel about it. It's true that morality is constructed out of emotional cloth, but it isn't as simple as morally good equaling a particular emotional state.