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To: betty boop
In my view, "strict individualism," or "unbalanced individualism," leads to personal and social disorder.

How can it possibly do that. Remember, a strict individualist is self-sufficient and never uses coercion against anyone else. Tell me how that leads to personal and social disorder.

Hank

167 posted on 09/30/2003 2:21:13 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: Hank Kerchief; Alamo-Girl; Phaedrus; unspun; PatrickHenry
...a strict individualist is self-sufficient and never uses coercion against anyone else. Tell me how that leads to personal and social disorder.

Because the concept isn't capacious enough to describe human existence. Your definition seems to hold that self-sufficiency and nonagression are the prime characteristics of human being.

Well. Anyone with eyes can tell you, this is hardly the case in practical reality.

And then, you and I both complain when these exemplary and hoped-for conditions do not hold. As they quite usually do not, these days.

Hank, there's more I'd like to say here, but I really do have to go make dinner now. But I'll be back.

172 posted on 09/30/2003 5:44:12 PM PDT by betty boop (God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. -- Paul Dirac)
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