The best way to make a bad thing is to take a good idea way too far. Every level of society is so that we have a safety rail. We have families so that if we injure ourselves, someone else can gather food while we heal. Good idea.

Take it too far, and we have what you describe, a whole culture in which people do not experience the results of their behavior and so are able to continue that behavior until the damage is too great to hide. Then disaster strikes and no one can understand what happened. Because they they chose to or were enabled to ignore every consequence along the way.