I'm not sure it confers more responsibility on a person so much as it makes them more aware of the responsibility they (and all people) have to the world and to each other. Our knowledge of those rules that guide the universe are there regardless of whether we know them or not, after all. While it may be easy to say that those people who know about a problem should therefore take the burden of it, that burden really exists with all people and it doesn't take enlightenment to understand enough of what that burden is and to work to help.