A fundamental sense of fairness -- for reasons given above. I understand that the "social contract" may dictate otherwise in practice (even ignoring arrogant s

A fundamental sense of fairness -- for reasons given above. I understand that the "social contract" may dictate otherwise in practice (even ignoring arrogant self-declarations of "social value", coming from a communist East European country, I've seen enough of those). After all, we're just a bunch of primates. But to pretend there's nothing bizarre about this group-above-individual arrangement, that the opposite is somehow a completely invalid or incomprehensible viewpoint, is a serious lapse of the imagination.