See, that doesn't actually refute my statement. I didn't say individualism works at everything. I said collectivism is the root of the worst evils. And you simply pointed out that yes, war works via collectivism, which is 100% in line with my position.There's one place individualism has always failed: War.
It would be absurd to demand Israel (though of course the UN and US both are doing exactly that) treat Gazans as individuals. Every Gazan vote, poll, almost every organization, and the testimony of hostages on "civilian" participation, young and old, male and female, in their kidnapping, shows Gazans to collectively be Israel's enemy. There certainly are individual Gazans who are not, but War has no way to single them out, and Israel cannot win a war by wasting resources trying, except to the extent necessary to play along to insane international demands.
How close America is to Civil War, and which groups must be collectively placed on one side or the other, and which groups must internally divide in a civil war of their own . . . well that's a question that will be very important in the next decade.
No, I mean there are extreme individualist libertarians who aren't open borders because of libertarian ideals.That is why I said "extreme individualism of libertarian stripe". Tolkien for example was libertarian yet still believed in ethno-states.
Regardless, treating jews as a collective is somehow very popular, and it almost always leads to bad stuff.
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