Wolford’s question ‘what human beings could do what happened to Sam’ invokes a hidden inference: big evil therefore bigots or monsters. When people from marginalized groups are targeted with extreme violence and cruelty, this dilemma directs us to make a choice. Either the perpetrators are self-aware bigots, or opportunistic monsters acting on impulses we’ll never comprehend. In either case, the details of a victim’s life and suffering are largely irrelevant. After all, they were just a stereotyped target for bigots, or an unlucky lamb plucked from the earth by a dragon.