@thomasfuchs I've definitely been guilty of this and I try to develop the instinct to recognize when I'm doing it.
It's a weird and very tribal thing. "If they're that bad, what does it say about me that I'm adjacent to them?"
Well... Sometimes what it says is "You didn't know." And a lot of the time what it says is "That was the most comfortable place to stand and you didn't move because you aren't a pain-seeking creature.... Now that you do know though, are you gonna move?"