If you keep watering a plant, it will never grow deep roots, because there is no need to grow deep roots if water is easily accessible. Arnold Toynbee stated that for society to function, for people to be creative, you need challenge. The greater the challenge, the greater the response. And if there is no challenge, you go soft, and by Darwinian process of weeding, you die....... Professor William Sahlman of Business Admin at Harvard Business School.
In summary, you make people struggle for what they need so that they can be more creative and productive.
How realistic is this philosophy?
Is there a situation in which it will be inhumane to adopt it?
How do you think some African Government is adopting this philosophy?
Any positive or negative results?
African government carryout this practice very well but they do it excessive. In the case of a plant, i would describe it in a way that the plant doesnt even get water atall