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    Philosophy Why Individualism is False

    Yes, but no. Its rarely in a persons long term rational self interest to divorce. Nearly seventy percent of people who have divorced wish they could get back with their first partner - you have basically a 1 in 3 chance of not regretting your divorce. Even if you don't regret it, that...
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    Philosophy Why Individualism is False

    Altruism is an ideology, not an action. Whether or not you're a nominalist is irrelevant. Even given that a society of individuals is worth more than the sum of it's parts (which I'd agree with), it's still true that if you reduce a society to zero individuals, there is nothing left, and...
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    Philosophy Why Individualism is False

    Actually, I don't think America is "collectivist." I think America pays tribute to collectivism, but I think the actual structure of America is a mix of oligarchical/technocratic/bureaucratic, with some light meritocracy mixed it. So far as America pays tribute to collectivism, I think its more...
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    Philosophy Why Individualism is False

    Its really self apparent that your argument is a strawman, actually. You don't represent individualism in the sense that you represent how actual individualists behave. Though, I'm a Randian Objectivist and Nietzschean Existentialist. I'm hardly going to pretend I'm an unbiased judge of the...
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    Philosophy Why Individualism is False

    Congratulations, you've taken a complete strawman of an idea and beaten it to death. Bravo to you, sir. Bravo.
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