the sick but absolute truth – unless one is motivated from self preservation, say someone holds a gun to one’s head and forces another to murder, then we must say, the many acts of rape, terrorism, torture, must have a selfish motive – and it goes like this – the Kabbalists teach, the world of evil/sadism is an inverted mirror of the world of goodness/love, and the essential component is ironically humility vs. arrogance; for whereas in the former we see another’s greatness, hence desire their affection and this creates love; in the latter, another’s greatness becomes a source of jealousy – for effectively arrogance is the notion that “I am the V.I.P.!” and hence their “usurpery” (as “mirror mirror on the wall….”) of your rightful status, causes a “justified’ maliciousness;” this in fact is why we find very wise and in fact even altruistic people such as Luther with irrational hate called antisemitism – it was their very genius and ability, which when it became self-recognized, that another’s, was considered a threat