Its do-gooding, utopian sentimentality enervated the nation's moral fibre, and eroded personal responsibility and the overriding duty of the poor to work.
Sheer size eroded personal responsibility, diffused risk, and eventually condoned evil.
The social security institutions, for instance, are based on state-sponsored theft (taxation, to the rest of us) which erode personal responsibility.
Mr. Haver said the new under secretary's post would not erode the responsibility of those agencies to report to the C.I.A. director.
He added that if dollarization "led to that kind of sense of eroding national responsibility, it might be unfortunate for the countries involved, and it might be unfortunate for their relationship with us".
Commenters argued that this 'culture of entitlement' would erode personal responsibility for health behaviours, with individuals only pursuing health behaviours for financial reward, rather than the health, and other benefits, of breastfeeding.
Rising numbers of women in work may also have eroded a paternal sense of responsibility.
The materiality and epidemiology of cities were also transformed by lack of public regulation and maintenance; the growth of the informal sector and the poor condition of roads and sewers eroded a sense of public responsibility for order and health (see Sanders 2008).
Nanny state regulations and universal health care thus create a vicious cycle that erodes individual responsibility and habituates citizens to ever-worsening erosions of their individual rights.
During the communist era, dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's bans on birth control and abortions led to large numbers of unwanted children who were dumped in orphanages as Romania's system eroded feelings of community and individual responsibility.
Once I returned to work after maternity leave, my responsibilities have consistently been eroded, despite consistently positive feedback about the quality of my work.
