 Both the nature and the origins of symbolic evil are hard to characterize; thus it is hard to see where it fits in the Table of Evils. Is there a metaphysical aspect to symbolic evil, or is it fully empirical? Is its origin entirely natural, or moral, or is there something spooky and non-agential about it? A related set of difficulties has to do with the fact that, in some contexts anyway, the transfer of symbolic disvalue operates via the complex logic of “taint”, contagion, or uncleanness. Some philosophers who write about symbolic value argue that the only way to avoid being “touched” by such evil is via active and explicit dissociation—a symbolic “standing with the good” (R. Adams 1999). In other words, even if our abstinence does not make a difference, we must symbolically oppose an evil practice by, say, explicitly signaling opposition and (where possible) refusing to consume or benefit from its results (see Hill 1983; Appiah 1986).