Because that is a few into what humanity is really made off. In that hellhole, you can not get high on any ideology. You can not delude yourself. Its the ugly mirror. You look into it to understand, to cut yourself on the shards to find out what you are made from. Sure you can distance yourself from this. But the human nature from whos understanding you distance yourself, is what makes up your team, its what might create your software. Not wanting to know, because its ugly, can get ugly in itself.