[In the final stretch coming back toward the Perimeter Guard's facilities, Breq doesn't relax her monitoring of the controls and the ship's path, despite the conversation.

She shrugs, as she adjusts the heading.]

Undoubtedly. But it's easy, to hide away in a bubble, metaphorical or literal. They wouldn't understand the outside world, so most of them ignore it. Even in the outer world, humans are good at ignoring the inconvenient facts they'd rather not see.