Can friendship come about in people who are vicious?

Aristotle suggests to go about this and distinguish what is loveable. What is loveable would be something like good or pleasure or useful. Useful is something that comes from being good or pleasant, so being good or pleasant is loveable. When speaking in terms of friendship it is necessary to love something which can reciprocate that same feeling, because it would be impossible for an object to love you in return. Then Aristotle goes on to say that there are three different kinds of love and since there are three kinds of love there is also three kinds of friendships.

"So there are three species of friendship, equal in number to the kinds of things that are loved; for in accordance with each, there is a reciprocal loving which one is not unaware of, and those who love one another wish for good things for one another in the same sense in which they love." (i.e. 1156a 10) The person who loves with pleasure is not actually loving the other person for who they are but loving on a basis of simply pleasure. The friendship dissolves quickly because they are friends on the basis of usefulness or pleasure. As people change through out time there is no longer feelings of pleasantness or usefulness and so the friendship does not last. To really look into this impasse Aristotle defines what a true friendship is.

Aristotle says the complete friendship are between two "people who are good and alike in virtue" (i.e. 1156b). Those people who are both good and have the same virtues are able to grow with one another bettering each other. What is good must be pleasant which in terms is loveable so this kind of friendship is the most intense and best friendship. Someone who is vicious is not a person of these attributes can truly have the best friendship with another person. Aristotle says "no one is able to spend much time with what is painful or not pleasing" (i.e 1157b) so the relationship between a vicious person would not be of the most intense friendship.