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Again, I made a claim about collectivism in general. It's quite falsifiable: tell me origins of horrors that occurred because of treating people as individuals, not as a collective. And give me more than a few, as I said most. Honestly, the great man theory of history would be a great place to...

Again, you totally ignored my point about the origin. Treating others as a collective causes nearly all major evils. There's the core argument. But you refuse to engage with it.

My statement: Where's the demand? More, the real issue is that my statement is a statement about the origins of major evils. You've replied with "Well, if something evil already exists, how should you respond" That's not what I'm talking about at all, so you continue to reply to a point I'm...

My statement is that collectivism leads to very bad stuff. You then argued against something I wasn't saying.

Most of the Mises Caucus, which currently runs the US Libertarian National Party, including the prominent members such as Dave Smith, etc. I'm another example. Basically the argument goes like: "Nations shouldn't own anything, everything should be privately owned. Therefore borders should be...

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. No, I mean there are extreme individualist...

Open borders isn't necessarily libertarian. In fact, if anything, we believe in private borders. Some libertarians are believers in closed borders, some in open borders. Same with abortion.

I'm not saying individualism can't be bad, what I'm saying is that the bad of individualism is orders of magnitude less than collectivism. When collectivism goes bad, it goes really bad (Communism, fascism, US's chattel slavery, ESG, etc). When individualism goes bad, its an issue of just that...

You are talking about predicting behavior. That's all well and fine. I'm talking about individual guilt. These are two separate things. When a group of X does Y, people who are X but not in the group aren't guilty of Y. More, I'm not saying that grouping people up is a bad predictor, I'm saying...

And the entirety of language history disagrees with you. Words are defined by how they are used commonly, because that's what language literally is: a set of sounds that have commonly known meanings. As long as those sounds are used to express those meanings and understood that way, that's what...

No, they absolutely don't and never have. Irregardless is a great example, but here are other examples as well. Sinophobia is a joke because the CCP uses it excessively, it's not the name that's dumb.

The issue is speaking about people as a collective not as individuals. Collective guilt is disgusting, and collectivism is the root of most evil.