This is just too easy. Here you go:
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29854&perpage=10&pagenumber=2
03-17-04
QUOTE FROM Rearden Metal:
Religion is only one part of the whole- COLLECTIVIST THEORY.
Look at all of the worst attrocities ever committed by mankind: Holocaust, Spanish Inquisition, Stalin's artificial famines, Rape of Nanking, etc...
All were perpetrated for the 'good of society' . All were committed because collectivist thinking puts 'society' ahead of the individual.
There is no such entity as SOCIETY. 'SOCIETY' can't think, feel, or care what is good for it. There are only individuals, and only individuals matter.
Yes, I realize this concept may be way above the heads of many on this board...
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03-17-04
QUOTE FROM ARogueTrader (Banned LoZZZer alias):
No such entity as society?
That is like saying no such entity as a family.....
Or no such entity as a team.....
Or there is no such entity as a gaggle of geese, a pack of wolves, a pride of lions.....
It is the proper balance between the needs of the collective and the needs of the individual that enhances both the collective and individual accordingly.
Yes, I realize this concept may be way above the heads of many on this board...
<b>`No Man is an Island`
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of they friends`s or of thine own were.
Any man`s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne (1572 - 1631) </b>
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03-17-04
QUOTE FROM Rearden Metal:
The above collectivist thinking by our very own Dr. Floyd Ferris is exactly why governments commit attrocities against individuals for the good of 'society', 'the white race', 'Allah', etc...
Borg thinking of this sort often results in individuals' rights getting trampled for the good of some imaginary non-entity. It happens over and over again throughout history, yet the collectivists never learn.
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03-17-04
QUOTE FROM LoZZZer:
... It is not us and them, it is after all we.