The text explores the motivations that lead individuals to engage in malevolent professions. It suggests that spite is a factor, but a deeper driving force is the craving for order. This yearning seeks to enforce a rigid structure upon the human experience, aspiring to create a world where everything operates under a uniform and impersonal rule. Such an obsession with order can also be perceived as a desire for death, as life inherently disrupts a fixed state of being.

Furthermore, this longing for order may serve as a guise for humanity's darker impulses, reflecting a hatred that underlies human interactions. Thus, the quest for an orderly existence becomes a pretext that rationalizes acts of aggression and cruelty against others. Kundera's insights remind us that behind the facade of a desire for order may lie a destructive force that ultimately diminishes the value of life itself.