(08-04-2023, 08:29 PM)Ninurta Wrote: The author seems to be sublimely unaware that everything "his side" does inhibits individual freedom. Quite the contrary he appears to think - or wants US to think - that his side somehow promotes individual freedom. I don't see that, personally. What I see is everything they do inhibiting individual freedom. It's only logical to conclude that anyone with a collectivist mindset does not even comprehend individual freedom, only collective, hive-mind, thought.
It is a mind-set, similar to a gated-community attitude regarding those not on their side of the wall.
'These are the rules we abide within... you should too'
It's only an island if you look at it from the water.