We can appreciate those consequences. We live with those consequences. And if we didn't understand consequences before, we learn to fully understand and appreciate them. We live with the results of our behavior especially in the sense that consequences have meaning for us and gain meaning for us. People are not static stimulus-response mechanisms.
People come to new understandings of things and completely change.
They grow in wisdom. Knowledge and intelligence are the accumulation of facts and the ability to process facts. Wisdom is an understanding of the relatedness of facts and the consequences of behavior. We learn and grow from experience. With experience we become less influenced by outside factors and more self directed.