This is the sort of person who will commit extreme atrocities, not because It Amused Me, and not out of cruelty nor genuine enjoyment of the activity itself. No, their depravity is much colder and much less human: they do what they do simply to show and underline and emphasize that they can, and that nobody is able to stop them from doing it. Typical of the Bad Boss and Villainous Demotivator, and related to ...