Posted 04 August 2009 - 04:18 PM
The problem is, when you have in your profile, for ages... "Dibs is acting rationally. LYNCH HIM!" as your signature, and then suddenly erase it.... you are asking for trouble. Go-Go-Gadget Symps to his rescue, but it ain't looking good for now.
Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....