Only Goodness can be chosen: evil is compelled.
I feel our true “nature” is Goodness, but that through trauma and grief we are thrown off track. Goodness is the DECISION to stay on track, to correct, to move right, or left or up or down, to stay on the path of Goodness–the path, ultimately, of least resistance (cite the scripture of your choice here).
Evil is being thrown off track, and not getting back on. It is allowing emotions you don’t want and which are destructive to take a hold of you. It is precisely NOT making a choice; and obviously in not making a choice, a choice is made by default, one not to your benefit.