 Kant [and following him Jaspers] refuses to cater to our prurient craving for a special account that applies especially to the most extreme cases of evil…. He fears that occupying our imaginations with extreme cases of evil may be merely a way of indulging some of our nastier human traits—rationalizing our resentment and vindictiveness by supplying it with an object that would seem to justify it. (Wood 2010: 157)