I don't agree with the thought that evil trait has to be mean at all. To me truly evil people can manipulate and cause chaos.. and really not care about most people or what their actions bring about... and they can smile while doing it. I like that we have a mean trait... because I've known people that are just darn mean but I don't necessarily think of them as evil, usually I think of them as doing what they do because of some sort of misdirected anger or insecurity or even learned behavior. Now I'm not saying the game traits couldn't be tweaked but I'd be very put out if all my evil sims were suddenly mean and unable to be nice on the surface so I'm way more satisfied with the evil trait as is then if they added mean actions I couldn't control to it. To me that's the stereotype.