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Individualistic welfare responsibility

Nature

The social story that everyone is self-sufficient results in the belief that a person should not have to care for anyone else. As a result care structures are designed to avoid direct personal responsibility for another's welfare. In general the ideal of such welfare structures is to develop people's self-sufficiency so that they are no longer a burden on others. Also people can and do avoid involvement with their extended family, their metropolitan area and the world as a whole.

Broader

Unshared mutual responsibility

Aggravates

Lack of human unity ^{[in 10 loops]}

Unbridled individualism ^{[in 14 loops]}

Restrictive social policies ^{[in 3 loops]}

Decline of the extended family ^{[in 2 loops]}

Inadequate social welfare services

Insensitivity to the plight of disadvantaged people ^{[in 1 loop]}

Aggravated by

Fear of the loss of independence

Reinforced parochialism of internal values and images

Strategy(ies)

Survivalism

Homesteading

Advocating individual responsibility

Value(s)

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

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