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Why is individualism a bad thing? (hexbear.net)

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Everytime I here individualism brought up by someone from Hexbear or Lemmygrad, it gets talked about as if it's categorically bad and wrong. Why is that?

This goes against everything I've learned in the states, where we consider individualism a necessary part of being a responsible and moral person, whereas collectivism strips us of our humanity and turns us into subhuman insectoid creatures incapable of thought.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Try doing anything without other people being involved, is that even possible? How does that line of thinking tell us anything about how people should relate to each other? You can analyze atomized individuals, but you end up with really incoherent ideas like "humans are fundamentally selfish". Sure, humans can be raised to be selfish, but compassion has to be beaten out of people in order to maintain a system that relies on these ideas. Honestly, the problem with individualism is that it depends on people living in an extremely forgiving environment. Any amount of serious adversity will teach you that it fucking sucks to do hard or complicated shit by yourself.