The first personality disorder recognized by psychiatry was the psychopath - a person who appear to have no conscience. If true, this would represent the absence of morality. Evil is better conscieved of as a perversion of morality. At the individual level, a proposed 'evil' subtype of narcissistic personality disorder uses self-deception to to develop a perverted conscience in which the evil they do is a great good. The theory also works at the collective level
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