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And we experience tyranny of the individual at the expense of everyone else currently. This is why businesses destroy the environment, to save individuals money
by alan-hn 5y ago
And we experience tyranny of the individual at the expense of everyone else currently. This is why businesses destroy the environment, to save individuals money (corporations are individuals as well in this context). This is just one example and not all-inclusive
Balance is what's needed, not extremism
- smitty1e 5y agoStrong concur. Questions: 1) Which is the greater danger: the group, or the individual? (In the long run, clearly the former.) 2) What is the difference between a public sector group and a private sector group? 3) How is the balance maintained?
- alan-hn 5y ago1: I don't know if either are a greater danger necessarily. Numerous laws or regulations that are overall harmful could be enacted on the behalf if individuals the same as the group although one could assume that the group has greater power in their numbers. But on the same hand, there are a same number if individuals so that seems difficult to judge to me 2: the more I think about this, the less I know how to answer 3: Currently in the US, the balance seems to be derived through voting and lobbying but large groups seem to have more power in that case, although it could be said that many of these groups aren't working for the greater good (what I refer to as the society or collective) but instead serve individual or private interests of a few It seems that we need more robust mechanisms to ensure balance in society from my perspective