I happen to agree with your poorly phrased objection - I happen to think that "personal responsibility" is mostly bullshit, and often a dangerous cover word for collective indifference and the just-world fallacy, much like "equality of opportunity", "self-reliance" and other applause lights - but please elaborate!
As far as I know, the conservative/right-libertarian argument against giving people in desperate need (e.g. Africans) "unearned" aid is that it doesn't just offer perverse incentives and degrade their society's mindset - it doesn't even lead to improved material conditions either, as birth rates, structures of supply and demand, etc would make things as bad or worse down the road.
However, I'm very unsure if that criticism true for many aid programs like basic education, healthcare, monitoring (or experiments like OLPC and the proposed wind/solar energy systems for Africa) - it sounds plausible for agricultural "aid" and other charities that replace the local economy - so it might be a case of taking true evidence in a few specific cases and applying it indiscriminately to all "interventionist" social projects for a fully general "libertarian" counterargument.
It's a commonly seen political dynamic, IMO: left-liberals follow some naive do-gooder sentiment to do something stupid/counter-productive (and often go in denial if it blows up, like decolonization); then their cynical/unscurplous opponents cite it as "evidence" why doing nice things for altruistic reasons is always Worse Than Hitler, and develop it into a general indictment of the altruistic/"socialist" mindset, a la Ayn Rand or... certain other writers.
Is that your take as well?
Seems like a good heuristic could be: "don't do for Africans what Africans can do for themselves; instead do the things they can't do for themselves". Though in reality it gets messy: what if they can do X, but can't do enough X? By providing additional X you compete with those who already provided X.
Even better, every provided help should employ local people where possible. For example, you bring the food help to one place, and then pay local people to distribute it to other places. But pay them a market rate only. (You are already increasing lo...
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