Evil can consist of depraved excess where pleasure gained wildly underweighs pain inflicted

Evidence

Those individuals who derive pleasure from the torture of children display this aspect of evil. One is struck by two things in this case: (a) the deviant and inhuman nature of the perverse impulse, and (b) the disproportion of the act in terms of the pleasure gained versus the pain inflicted. To inflict vast pain on the innocent to derive a fleeting and perverse pleasure is breathtakingly horrible. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3870

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ethical difficulty beyond good and evil can itself engineer new enjoyment — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 994