There’s also a moral aspect to that “indolence.” Of course we don’t call it that. We say we’re too civilized to do the reset that needs to be done. Too ethical to commit civil disobedience. We’re conservatives, we don’t break laws.
They break us.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
- US Declaration of Independence