The Scale of Evil by Michael Stone Lyrics
The Scale Of Evil
NOT EVIL
1. Justified Homicide
The least malevolent: Those who have killed in self-defense and do not show psychopathic features.
2. Jealous Lovers, Non-Psychopathic
Though egocentric or immature, evildoers in this category committed their crimes in the heat of passion.
3. Willing Companions Of Killers
Still far from psychopathic, some have antisocial traits and an aberrant personality. They're often driven by impulse.
4. Provocative "Self-Defense"
These people kill in self-defense, but they aren't entirely innocent themselves; they may have been "extremely provocative" toward their victim.
5. Desperate Measures
These are traumatized, desperate killers of abusive relatives or others — but they lack “significant psychopathic traits” and are genuinely remorseful.
6. Hot Heads
Killers who act in an impetuous moment, yet without marked psychopathic features.
7. Narcissists
Highly narcissistic killers who are often possessive, not distinctly psychopathic, but "with a psychopathic core." They typically kill loved ones or family members out of jealousy.
8. Fit of Rage
Non-psychopathic people, who live with an underlying, smoldering rage, then kill when that rage is ignited.
9. Jealous Lovers, Psychopathic
The scale's first foray into psychopathic territory, these killers are jealous lovers but with marked psychopathic features.
10. "In The Way" Killers, Not Fully Psychopathic
Killers of witnesses or people who are simply "in the way." These evildoers are egocentric, but not totally psychopathic.
11. "In The Way" Psychopaths
Psychopathic killers of people "in the way." Premeditation is not usually a major factor in their killings.
12. Power-Hungry And Cornered
Power-hungry psychopaths who kill when "cornered," or placed in a situation they wouldn't be able to escape with their power intact.
13. Inadequate And Rageful
Murderers with shortcomings that follow them throughout life, who also express psychopathic impulses and are prone to rage.
14. Schemers
Ruthlessly self-centered and psychopathic, schemers stop at nothing to deceive, con and steal.
15. Cold-Blooded Spree
Murderers who kill multiple people calmly and with a psychopathic motive. Often pathological in their denial of guilt or inability to confront reality.
16. Vicious Psychopaths
Those who commit multiple vicious acts that may also include murder, rape or mutilation.
17. The Sexually Perverse
Serial killers with some element of sexual perversion in their crimes. In males, rape is usually the primary motive and killing follows to hide the evidence. Torture is not a primary motive.
18. Torturing Murderers
Though psychotic, they do not typically prolong their torture. Murder, not torture, is their primary motivation.
19. Non-Homicidal Psychopaths
Psychopaths who fall short of murder, yet engage in terrorism, subjugation, intimidation or rape.
20. Murdering Torturers
Psychotic (legally insane) and primarily motivated by their desire to torture.
21. Pure Torturers
Not all torturers murder. These psychopaths (evaluated to be in touch with reality) are preoccupied with torture "in the extreme," but never convicted of murder.
22. Psychopathic Torture-Murderers
Defined by a primary motivation to inflict prolonged, diabolical torture. Most in this category are male serial killers.
NOT EVIL
1. Justified Homicide
The least malevolent: Those who have killed in self-defense and do not show psychopathic features.
2. Jealous Lovers, Non-Psychopathic
Though egocentric or immature, evildoers in this category committed their crimes in the heat of passion.
3. Willing Companions Of Killers
Still far from psychopathic, some have antisocial traits and an aberrant personality. They're often driven by impulse.
4. Provocative "Self-Defense"
These people kill in self-defense, but they aren't entirely innocent themselves; they may have been "extremely provocative" toward their victim.
5. Desperate Measures
These are traumatized, desperate killers of abusive relatives or others — but they lack “significant psychopathic traits” and are genuinely remorseful.
6. Hot Heads
Killers who act in an impetuous moment, yet without marked psychopathic features.
7. Narcissists
Highly narcissistic killers who are often possessive, not distinctly psychopathic, but "with a psychopathic core." They typically kill loved ones or family members out of jealousy.
8. Fit of Rage
Non-psychopathic people, who live with an underlying, smoldering rage, then kill when that rage is ignited.
9. Jealous Lovers, Psychopathic
The scale's first foray into psychopathic territory, these killers are jealous lovers but with marked psychopathic features.
10. "In The Way" Killers, Not Fully Psychopathic
Killers of witnesses or people who are simply "in the way." These evildoers are egocentric, but not totally psychopathic.
11. "In The Way" Psychopaths
Psychopathic killers of people "in the way." Premeditation is not usually a major factor in their killings.
12. Power-Hungry And Cornered
Power-hungry psychopaths who kill when "cornered," or placed in a situation they wouldn't be able to escape with their power intact.
13. Inadequate And Rageful
Murderers with shortcomings that follow them throughout life, who also express psychopathic impulses and are prone to rage.
14. Schemers
Ruthlessly self-centered and psychopathic, schemers stop at nothing to deceive, con and steal.
15. Cold-Blooded Spree
Murderers who kill multiple people calmly and with a psychopathic motive. Often pathological in their denial of guilt or inability to confront reality.
16. Vicious Psychopaths
Those who commit multiple vicious acts that may also include murder, rape or mutilation.
17. The Sexually Perverse
Serial killers with some element of sexual perversion in their crimes. In males, rape is usually the primary motive and killing follows to hide the evidence. Torture is not a primary motive.
18. Torturing Murderers
Though psychotic, they do not typically prolong their torture. Murder, not torture, is their primary motivation.
19. Non-Homicidal Psychopaths
Psychopaths who fall short of murder, yet engage in terrorism, subjugation, intimidation or rape.
20. Murdering Torturers
Psychotic (legally insane) and primarily motivated by their desire to torture.
21. Pure Torturers
Not all torturers murder. These psychopaths (evaluated to be in touch with reality) are preoccupied with torture "in the extreme," but never convicted of murder.
22. Psychopathic Torture-Murderers
Defined by a primary motivation to inflict prolonged, diabolical torture. Most in this category are male serial killers.