Is it evil or stupidity?
Do not apply to evil what can be explained by idiocy.

If the given is, "the world is over-populated"
then is eugenics and the carrying out of it, evil?

If the stated goal is helping children
but the actual action is to traumatize children by taking them away from the parent
or worse, to put them into child sex trafficking...

We can't even recognize actions or stated intentions.