This is simply human nature.
However, horrid events do happen. Wounds are incurred. Pain is felt. It is real. Looking away does not change that fact. Denial does not change that fact. Blocking it out does not change that fact. Wishing that it never happened does not change that fact.
It is fact!
Facts cannot be denied. No matter how horrid, how evil, how barbaric, how maniacal. No matter how intense the pain, no matter how hard we try to look away, no matter what. Facts remain just what they are.
We must look!
Yes, by looking, we will most likely feel even more pain. Pain that hurts like no other. But it must be faced. It must be endured. It must be felt. It must be dealt with!
If we choose not to look, we choose to deny fact. It we do not look, we cannot deal with the pain.
And if we do not deal with it, it will deal with us, and we will be at its mercy. We can tell ourselves that we already know what evil looks like. We tell ourselves that there is no need to see it. We tell ourselves that to look at evil is somehow evil in itself. We tell ourselves that we shouldn't look out of deference to others. Those others are telling themselves the same thing.
The end result is that we have all convinced ourselves that evil is something etheral, a notion, a concept, a description to be read from a history book.
Evil is very real. It has substance. It has form. It has a face.
If we intend to defeat evil, we can do no less than stare at evil willingly, without downcast eyes, without dropped chin, without slumped shoulders, without shame, without fear!