knowing little villains

What they know at that age is attitudes that they've learned, and techniques. Their agenda is something quite unfathomable, and is I suspect usually defensive at its root.

The "wickedness" of small children is what they have learned from their parents, older people, and society around them. Apparently evil children are a reflection of a really evil society. Can you tell children not to bully others, when it's obvious that adults who bully get on and succeed? Not to play sex games, when almost every product is sold using this sex that is clearly so powerful, yet they don't understand it? Not to cheat, when everybody else does?

Richard, your condemnation of these children is, if you have any self awareness (and I know you have), a condemnation of your own failures and those of the society we live in.