@basedbagel - Denial is a helluva drug. Chances are, they just don't want to deal with that "good god, what have I done?!" moment.
I'd say future history will look upon this time as the greatest crime against humanity ever perpetrated... But I'm kinda hoping that future history doesn't frame it so, because that would imply the same common values are held in the future. And those values are demonstrably shit.