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asking for help is a sign of weakness and a bad thing...but receiving help without asking is ok I guess...and helping people in need is mandatory or you are considered to be "evil". That might be a better description even if it conflicts with what I wrote earlier

I think this is common for most of the Western world (i.e. North-Western Europe, US) and has its root in Christian morality. The thing is, this morale is psychologically wrong. It is said it works like this:

You are free to adopt Egyptian ethics if you want to...but I think I will pass...at least until they have something concrete results to show. I think whole Egypt is pretty much one big mess nowadays. Starting from traffic and ending in politics.

Like I said before: there is a trade-off. Us europeans being more self-sufficient got us where we are: we do well economically, and mid-life crisisses are thrown in as an added bonus :wink:

Yeah but the crisis stuff comes because we submit to the morals only partially