some scripts require villains and someone has to agree to play those parts--they could do so just for the experience of what it feels to perpetrate evil, they could do it just because someone has to for all this to work...some people believe that every script provides for growth in some fashion for every soul--perhaps, but not necessarily from the current life cycle--I firmly believe that some souls have amassed so much bad karma that they have to agree to incarnate into a "throw away life." I believe my father, being an extreme covert narcissist, is living such a life. I needed a torturer and he played the part. A match made in heaven. https://medium.com/grab-a-slice/canceling-my-father-the-ultimate-expression-of-empathy-dbf390772d26