[davorak]

Potentially you are talking about different things, the action and the organization.

I can read

> but I don’t believe they are that plain evil

so that the writer does not think the ccp is just evil, meaning they are more than just evil. So the writer might think the cpp does evil things probably including:

> disappearing someone in order to intimidate them into operating "on a short leash"

but without making the cpp just or only evil.

[arvigeus]

By "plain evil" I mean a cartoon-like villains that do things (and laugh) just for the sake of being evil. What CCP are doing is playing a game of chess where they are after some end goal, thinking multiple steps in advance. Killing someone this public will have too much bad consequences later.