From ideas42: "quality of life issues are caused
by a lack of available channels for socially and environmentally conscious behaviors, rather than
by any inherent negative behavioral tendencies" <-- incredibly underrated in policy design and discourse

While the malevolence explanation for socially suboptimal behavior might be more salient, it often leads to worse policy decisions than the inconvenience explanation. Humans are not inherently evil, they are just incredibly busy

especially true for small, high-frequency decisions, like trash disposal (subject of the ideas42 work, link at the end of this thread). Simply making it easier for people to make the socially optimal decision (e.g. providing dog waste bags) is more effective than a punitive fine

Report: https://www.ideas42.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/NYCHA_Trashing-Misconceptions.pdf

This is about trash disposal, but I think the policy lessons are generalizable