It is possible for humans to live alone once they are big enough with sufficient skills, and a few humans choose to do that -- hermits and such. But most humans do not want to live in isolation where they have to do everything for themselves.
All humans experience times of dependence: infancy, illness, injury, old age if they last that long, and whenever they urgently need something that they can't readily do for themselves. For people who have had unpleasant experiences with vulnerability and neglect or abuse, this is nerve-wracking, so they crave independence to minimize future risk. Thus one reason for insisting that people should not need or get help is the prior experience of no or bad help that sours the whole concept.
The belief that help should be readily available when needed is more likely to come from experiences where help was indeed available and effective. It builds a higher level of trust and a sense of sufficiency. Though occasionally you see "I've got mine, screw everyone else" or "What happened to me shouldn't happen to anyone else" patterns.
The more people cooperate and help each other, the bigger things they can accomplish as a group, whereas individual achievements are more limited in scope. But that only works if you have team members who are competent and have some teamwork skills. Inept or begrudging team members not only don't do a good job, they can make other people resist working in teams because taking up other people's slack is harder than just doing it yourself.
So increasing the proportion of people who believe that help should be readily available requires a lot of rootwork to fix problems caused by no or bad help, which is difficult at best and impossible at worst.
Thoughts
It is possible for humans to live alone once they are big enough with sufficient skills, and a few humans choose to do that -- hermits and such. But most humans do not want to live in isolation where they have to do everything for themselves.
All humans experience times of dependence: infancy, illness, injury, old age if they last that long, and whenever they urgently need something that they can't readily do for themselves. For people who have had unpleasant experiences with vulnerability and neglect or abuse, this is nerve-wracking, so they crave independence to minimize future risk. Thus one reason for insisting that people should not need or get help is the prior experience of no or bad help that sours the whole concept.
The belief that help should be readily available when needed is more likely to come from experiences where help was indeed available and effective. It builds a higher level of trust and a sense of sufficiency. Though occasionally you see "I've got mine, screw everyone else" or "What happened to me shouldn't happen to anyone else" patterns.
The more people cooperate and help each other, the bigger things they can accomplish as a group, whereas individual achievements are more limited in scope. But that only works if you have team members who are competent and have some teamwork skills. Inept or begrudging team members not only don't do a good job, they can make other people resist working in teams because taking up other people's slack is harder than just doing it yourself.
So increasing the proportion of people who believe that help should be readily available requires a lot of rootwork to fix problems caused by no or bad help, which is difficult at best and impossible at worst.