> ... I simply cannot understand If my parents had supported me indefinitely it would have extended my dependence and delayed my adulthood indefinitely. This i

> ... I simply cannot understand If my parents had supported me indefinitely it would have extended my dependence and delayed my adulthood indefinitely. This is a moral hazard of too much welfare. You can agree that this hazard exists and still disagree about its relative danger and threshold. Your rural neighbors aren't moral monsters, they just have different risk assessments. I think a lot of that is due to a more independent rural childhood from an earlier age. It creates a greater appreciation for antifragility. A kid released into the wild at age 6 has a different estimate of their own capacity than one supervised until 12. They project that estimate onto everyone else.