I heard multiple times in the Breaking Bad fandom that Todd is a sadist, or evil just for the hell of it. Am I missing something, because it seems to me that all his crimes are motivated by greed or self-interest, not pure evil.
Killing Drew Sharp and Andrea, torturing and enslaving Jesse, cooking meth: all these things are done to either for personal profit, self-preservation, or out of loyalty to the gang. Of course, he shows absolutely no remorse, but he doesn't seem to derive any visible pleasure from causing pain either.
I though maybe people say he's just pure evil because he's part of a neo-Nazi gang. But then why Todd specifically? And besides, while Nazis are evil, their core ideology isn't just simple sadism. Maybe fear of outsiders/change, toxic masculinity/pride, collectivist/ingroup thinking, disdain for the weak and academia, but not "hurting people just because".