Problem
Overemphasis on individual rights
Nature:
The emphasis on the rights of the individual in the modern industrial era has generated a folklore in which care for the individual is often at the expense of the individual's obligations towards the wider context. Incidence:
For example, large labour unions act to maintain the unemployment, sickness and retirement benefits of their members at levels that cannot be guaranteed by current and future production earnings. Broader Problems:
Unbridled individualismStructural failure of citizen participationLegal contract system reduced to individual needsOveremphasis on self-sufficiency with respect to interdependence Related Problems:
Exclusion of opposing viewsParochial national interestsBreakdown in community security systemsGlobal complexity as a hindrance to leadership Aggravates:
IndifferenceMisused ambulance serviceInconsiderate telephone useMisuse of international forumsMisrepresentation of self-sufficiency as socially responsible Reduced By:
Lack of individualismOfficial disregard for people as human beings
Ineffective protection of individual rights due to excessive court costs
Values:
RightsOveremphasis Subject(s):
Society → IndividualsPolicy-making → Policy
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
01.01.2000 – 00:00 CET