Posted 18 December 2010 - 08:34 PM
worrywort, on 15 December 2010 - 08:44 PM, said:
No jest, and don't call me Surly.
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....