The innocent dead are invisible to them. The have invested so deeply in the pro-death culture that cognitive dissonance has of necessity created a lacuna in their moral vista for them to hide the dirty little secret away where it can disturb them neither emotionally nor intellectually.
The carnage is so overwhelming, and the response to it so underwhelming, that it brings to mind Stalin's infamous dictum: "A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."
And yet you justify someone like Rudolph who is just as guilty as they are...