when you voluntarily assist someone, you create an opportunity to expand yourself, when you ask for help, you have the opportunity to be taught, when you help, you have the opportunity to learn. When you pass that responsibility to a paid enforcer, you receive none of these benefits

This is the core of my philosophy, too (or, the philosophy I've learned from others). The problem is, it's like many other economic truths: often unseen to the untrained or uncommitted observer.