I actually think its more fear than comfort. You're talking about a generation of kids raised to be passive in their response to transgressions and appeal to authority. When faith in authority disappears, like it has, the passive component remains.
Isn't it also fear of losing the comfort? Do you want to spend the night in jail or in a warm bed at home? Do you want that arrest to follow you for the rest of your life so you never get any job? Or do you rather want a happy, successful life with wife and children?
Yeah, but I say fear because it's the underlying emotion/behavior. Even with the following examples, fear responses. The people willing to confront things directly in spite of the consequences has always been low. History seems to show that you dont really get numbers approaching a majority unless people have already lost the things they can attach their fears to For the record, yes I have spent the night in jail.