To see the truth of evil is to see that it should not be. This implies action. (Similarly to see the truth of good is to see that it should be, which may also imply action.) So you can't see the moral truth without acting (or willing to act, in case you don't have the ability to act). If you can choose to have the ability to act, or to act more effectively, doing so follows from seeing the moral truth.
We have reactions to evil things which are not necessarily the recognition of the wrongness of them. Perhaps evil makes us sad or feel powerless. To look on evil, when it makes us feel too powerless to will that it not be, is not to see that it should not be.
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