A poison idea that has the same effect on a culture as salt on a slug is disposability. Objects are disposable, values are disposable and of course people, until you’re drowning in a sea of the discarded and useless.

What to do if you are choking and nobody else at the dinner table will act when you gasp out “I’m choking” twice and can’t breathe enough to ask for more help.

https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/special-topic/heimlich-maneuver-on-self