People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.
“The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it.”
“Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.”