Frank wrote on May 8
th, 2022 at 12:25pm:
thegreatdivide wrote on May 8
th, 2022 at 12:00pm:
My job is to expose the delusional, instinct-based nature of the West's "freedom"/'individual rights" ideology, and its disastrous consequences for collective well-being in the world.
To call this moronic is to talk it up.
Not a promising start, but let's read on...
Quote:What makes up a 'collective' of human beings?
A group, from the local to the global. And the natural (instinctive) competitive self-interest of individuals within the group - local or global (the collective) - requires rule of law to adjudicate between those self-interests (aka
national sovereignty, at the global level).
Quote: And can there be a 'collective wellbeing' without the wellbeing of the... er.... individuals who make up any group, collective, society.
There most certainly can be: individual billionaires co-exist in a sea of collective poverty, in many nations.
Quote:How can you have 'collective wellbeing' without individual rights and freedoms?
By instituting functional government which establishes 'common prosperity'.
Quote:It is totally moronic, totally off the wall Bbwianesquely moronic to put individual freedom and rights AGAINST the freedom and rights of a group of individuals, as if the two things were antithetical.
Rights of individuals are delusional and do not exist in the natural world. Only
desires of individuals - for freedom and "rights" - exist.
So, the
collective well-being of the group of individuals with their own desires, can only be achieved by functional government with that goal.