 Arendt responded to the controversies in the book's Postscript.Although Arendt complained that she was being criticized for telling the truth – "what a risky business to tell the truth on a factual level without theoretical and scholarly embroidery" – the criticism was largely directed to her theorizing on the nature of mankind and evil and that ordinary people were driven to commit the inexplicable not so much by hatred and ideology as ambition, and inability to empathize.Equally problematic was the suggestion that the victims deceived themselves and complied in their own destruction.