Sontag in the opening pages of chapter 8 is trying to get at the ignorant people who think human beings are not capable of doing great harm to one another. Sontag finds it incomprehensible for a person of adult age to believe that humans are incapable of doing great harm even when provided with evidence. She refers to these people of not reaching moral or psychological adulthood.
I personally believe she right and wrong we all have seen gruesome things in our lives that one person has done to another especially our nightly news has done a good job documenting such events, so Sontag thinks this person has no excuse to be surprise when a person do something harmful to another person.
At the same time, she can be wrong to refer people as ignorant for not accepting the moral flaws some people have. She also does not take in to account people moral tolerances for such actions. I mean you would not expect a nun to have the same tolerance of a police officer when it comes to some gruesome images.
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