If the meanest people are unhappy, why are villains always laughing? Villains find joy in bringing others down to their level. Rather than doing the work to look inwards or risk failure trying to lift themselves out of their unhappy situation, it is easier to look around them to find fault in others and intentionally hurt them. Suffering is a state of being. Evil requires action. Whether or not an action is evil depends on the people involved and the situation. If A and B are competing in a game, and B lies/cheats/attacks/preys on weaknesses and then wins... Not evil. If B is in a position of power meant to represent the masses and lies/cheats/attacks/preys on weaknesses and then wins... Totally evil. B's background does not matter. B's suffering does not matter.
I think the act based on their circumstance. They don't believe their evil to begin with. Like most interesting evil villains in movies, they have a motivation that they believe in is a good thing. When Sartre says humans cannot choose evil, I think an interpretation is that people just don't do evil things for the sake of being evil.
For example, most political conservatives actually think they're helping people by giving less handouts. It teaches people to work and dig out of their situation themselves. For Trump, his narcissism got out of hand and need money/power to feed his ego. Evil is just a byproduct.
If the meanest people are unhappy, why are villains always laughing? Villains find joy in bringing others down to their level. Rather than doing the work to look inwards or risk failure trying to lift themselves out of their unhappy situation, it is easier to look around them to find fault in others and intentionally hurt them. Suffering is a state of being. Evil requires action. Whether or not an action is evil depends on the people involved and the situation. If A and B are competing in a game, and B lies/cheats/attacks/preys on weaknesses and then wins... Not evil. If B is in a position of power meant to represent the masses and lies/cheats/attacks/preys on weaknesses and then wins... Totally evil. B's background does not matter. B's suffering does not matter.
I think the act based on their circumstance. They don't believe their evil to begin with. Like most interesting evil villains in movies, they have a motivation that they believe in is a good thing. When Sartre says humans cannot choose evil, I think an interpretation is that people just don't do evil things for the sake of being evil.
For example, most political conservatives actually think they're helping people by giving less handouts. It teaches people to work and dig out of their situation themselves. For Trump, his narcissism got out of hand and need money/power to feed his ego. Evil is just a byproduct.