So let's imagine that we are all part of a small village in the jungle. One of us keeps licking toads, and every time has to be tended to hand and foot for a few days until the poison wears off. Relatives of the toad licker say that he is a victim of his addiction to licking toads, it's not his fault, and the village needs to keep supporting him until he can get over it. But tending to him hand and foot takes time, and this is time that the villagers can't spend gathering food or repairing roof huts.
Eventually, things come to a head, and the villager is told that the next time he licks a toad --he's on his own.
The collectivist mindset has a very firm grasp on the concept of the group sacrificing for the individual. And a very firm grasp on the concept of taking resources from those that have them and giving them to those that don't.
But they have no concept of the idea of stopping an individual without resources from continuing to take resources from the group, even though this is a sacrifice no less important than the other two. This sacrifice is That Which Must Not Be Uttered.
Society has lost balance, and has entered an amplifying cycle of taking resources from the group that will only stop when the group puts its foot down or group resources are exhausted.
Maybe we are reaching that point:
