 The term “evil” is typically only applied in cases of symbolic disvalue when there is something excessive about them. Stepping on a flag or consuming a chicken sandwich might have some symbolic disvalue, but it would be strange to say that these are cases of symbolic evil. Having anything to do with soap made from the body fat of people murdered at the Stutthof concentration camp, by contrast, seems downright evil, even if the intended consequences (i.e., getting oneself clean) are good. Indeed, the symbolic evil attached to such a product may “touch” everyone who was part of the society that permitted its manufacture, whether they were directly involved or not. The evil of sustained chattel slavery may have a similar sort of symbolic power, even generations later.