No, it should not be "shrugged off": it could be carefully considered and a better alternative provided, as you suggested. "Shrugged off" implies that problems

No, it should not be "shrugged off": it could be carefully considered and a better alternative provided, as you suggested. "Shrugged off" implies that problems that don't apply to you personally are not important, and that attitude or even its apparent presence cause a huge chunk of the world's problems at root...