Evil Occurs when individuals or groups embrace codes of conduct or standards of behavior for their own personal well being and social approval, yet violate tho

Evil Occurs when individuals or groups embrace codes of conduct or standards of behavior for their own personal well being and social approval, yet violate those very same codes or standards to undermine the personal well being and social approval of others. There's degrees of evil, but no shades. Evil was being done to people in this case.