This is an excellent point. This may seem off-topic, but I realized some time ago during the debates about minimum wage increases, it wasn't the managers of fast food joints being the loudest opposition, it was lower-middle class people who don't want to give up their $1 cheeseburgers, no matter what the societal costs.

If you create distance between a person and the consequences of their evil, they become more likely to tolerate their evil.