> Why we fear responsibility might loop back around to a belief that we are incapable of individual survival.

I could see that evolving, if only because it gives those "capable of extra-individual survival" something to trade for what those "incapable of individual survival" offer. You have to cut sections out of a puzzle piece if it's meant to fit with other, partial themselves, pieces. If you're a puzzle maker, you can't be sure the puzzle will be solved as intended unless you create many such codependent partial pieces.

k00b

Fear of Immediate rejection usually 

Relates to Fear of Failure or ridicule 

Bell_curve

culture

Groupthink as a survival strategy

SilkyNinja

She may find being responsible for choices that influence both of your futures more daunting than you being an immediate physical threat. Why we fear responsibility might loop back around to a belief that we are incapable of individual survival. 

Is indecision indicative of a fear of responsibility (some consequence in the future) or immediate rejection? This could be part of the perspective on what indecision *is* that I was missing when I wrote this initially. 