I was listening to a talk once by a German philosopher who grew up after the war. In Germany still, they teach what happened without exception at school. He said in the talk that when he was at school, there came a time in every German child's life around the age of 12, they they would go home and ask their parents,
"Did you know?"
It is more convenient. It is more profitable. It is far easier.
When good men do nothing.
Yes, lack of action has consequences too, we often fail to realize that. We say it is someone else's problem.
I like Doug Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He explains many deep things in an amusing way, that you realize the deeper meaning much later. He said:
Today it is known as a sociopsychological phenomenon called "Diffusion of responsibility" or bystanders syndrome of "Genovese syndrome"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese
We had to take a class about it after Macondo Incident in US Gulf of Mexico, if you remember. It is strange, how it was all related.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill