I always hear the phrase,
"they need support".
"they should have had support".
Every time a crime from poverty or desperate situations happens.
When children have mental health crises.
When people commit suicide.
When people discuss homeless encampments.
When disabled people get MAID.
When a disabled person is abused or neglected, or dies from this abuse or neglect.
And it's really similar to the pro-life movement because whenever these people need support no one shows up.
In systems thinking, the issue of burden to the intervenor is where people placing responsibility on an entity to solve a problem that is not their ability or responsibility to solve, and that deteriorates the system. It can be seen in the following: (people incorrectly place responsibility on)
-teachers
-therapists
-social workers
-mental health treatment
-social services
A lot of these social services that help people depend on the public, who is largely absent. This is for:
Disability accommodations
Generic social and community support and responsibility that is provided through friendship and not an official position or purpose.
Foster homes, for both children and adults.
Host homes.
Services that depend on the public to volunteer installment of auxilery unit rentals.
Landlord approval of vouchers.
Caregiving and respite care workers and volunteers.
Companionship workers and volunteers.
Mutual aid networks
With the amount of people that need help, it is every single person's responsibility to do something.
That's you.
If you do not provide a foster home, you assist someone who does. Or you volunteer, sponsor, or become an individual's advocate.
If you have extra backyard space, put in a tiny home and accept someone with a voucher. If you have a spare bedroom, become a host home provider.
If you do not have someone you are caregiver to, become someone's caregiver. Can do an hour a week, sometimes the smallest tasks mean the most.
If you are socializing, be intentional about relieving the lonliness of people experiencing isolation by inviting them.
That is what needs to happen.
But it won't.
Call it individualism, call it capitalism, call it bio-family propoganda, it's all summed up by pro-support.
People are pro-support because they can claim to care without ever having to prove it.
It's true some people legitmately can not help- they are in desperate positions themselves. But this isn't measured by inability, but rather the absence of (close to) the entire population of people who are able, regardless if they have always been able or gained the ability after surviving instability.
The equivalent of abortion in pro-support ideaology is death. I don't know what that would look like. Assisted suicide for non-terminal illness is wrong; it's the first-resort in response to a need for assistance. It is genocidal. It pathologizes the body's natural responses to bad situations.
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