"Many people need assistance as to how to live their life."
How do you see people can be assisted to live their life in the way those assisting want them to live ?
Should there be a limit on how much assistance one can give ?
I can imagine those wanting to assist can, and in fact, do have different views on how one should live his or her life. So, how do we decide whose views are "better" ?
I have no disagreement with the broad thrust of your sentiment. Our parents guided and nurtured us when we were young. Our teachers in schools and universities taught and guided us in our quest for knowledge. As we go through life, the norms of our society guided us on how to behave and live.
The whole cycle is repeated when it is our turn to do what our elders have done for us.
I think it is a natural cycle. It is how a society perpetuates itself in maintaining its order of things and vakues, unless of course it is "changed" by some violent means, eg, a revolution, or some kind of "cultural revolution" that the Chinese went through (disastrously, I may say so).
