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Insensitivity to the plight of disadvantaged people

Name(s): 
Abandoning the poor to their fate
Global triage
Broader 
Government insensitivity
Indifference to suffering
Lack of protection for the vulnerable
Lack of a sense of community and solidarity at the world level
Narrower 
Social insecurity
Taxation of the poor
This problem is a member of 4 aggravating loops
Aggravates 
Countries in crisis
Disadvantaged groups [in 1 loop]
Environmental poverty [in 1 loop]
Refusal to market new drugs [in 1 loop]
Inadequate social welfare services
Denial of access to people in need
Institutionalized callousness of public services [in 1 loop]
Aggravated by 
Eco-fascism
Pre-millennialism
Embargo on medicines
Preoccupation with increasing size
Irredeemably disadvantaged regions
Individualistic welfare responsibility
Excessive burden on the poor due to legal delays
Strategy(ies) 
Promoting solutions to poverty
Protecting the poor
Providing the poor with services
Researching effects of abandoning the poor to their fate
Abandoning the poor
Ensuring rights of disadvantaged groups
Highlighting disadvantaged
Ignoring plight of disadvantaged people
Value(s) 
Sensitivity
Disadvantage
Insensitivity
Nonglobalized
Oversensitiveness
Poverty
Reference(s) 
Keen, David: Refugees: rationing the right to life
Type 
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

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