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One's evil comes from ideological and personal betrayal and for the other one, it comes from sociopathic terrorism and chaotic, systemic destruction.

Staples of Cormac's villains —

Anton Chigurh: Killed a deputy with handcuffs. Killed a man to take his car, with his livestock killing weapon. Was ready to kill a gas station owner simply because he mentioned Anton was coming from Dallas, which Anton took as an intrusive threat and only let go because the coin said the same face the owner called. Shows no remorse for his actions. Possibly, by the end of the novel/movie, he kills Carla, Moss's wife, which he frames as a promise claimed to Moss.

Total, amoral psychopath

Jon Joel Glanton: Is the leader of a scalp hunting gang that kills natives, targeting civilians, including old people, women, children and babies, burning and raiding villages in the process and probably has been doing it for years. Beats his dog and breaks its leg to tame it. Indiscriminately kills animals for target practice and threatens people, like the Mexican woman reading his tarot card. He's totally complicit with the gang's extreme violence and depravity, including the Judge's peophilic murdering side. Forms a deceptive alliance with the Yumas, only to betray and slaughter them. Has little to no care for his own gang members, as when Miguel comes out of a hut impaled by a spear but alive, Glanton shoots him without any emotion and takes his scalp.

Nihilistic, greedy and sadistic mercenary

One is absolute systemic evil, combined with extreme pride and pettiness and the other is absolute pragmatic malice and psychopathic, hands on cruelty