labingi

I think a world without cutoff does not necessarily mean a world where all the relationships would have to be deeply commited. The way I understand the speaker, it simply means that one could have a range of casual connections (that could still be fairly meaningful), but once a certain level of immersion was reached, it would come with responsibilities, among others not to cut that person off (and yes, other ways of lessening/ceasing the contact would still be possible).
I think our culture‘s relationship with commitment is a bit schizophrenic, where on one hand we‘re told that it is this „rare and honoured thing“, one worth having in life and even fighting and sacrificing for – i.e. great lovestories, epic friendship tales – while on the other hand our culture readily condones cutting the other loose at the first moderate inconvenience. Except a lot of what constitutes commitment is sometimes inconvenient, mundane and trivial, and it feels like there‘s generally less and less tolerance for those parts. On the whole, it seems like our dear culture is a lot more attracted to the idea of commitment than its reality.