mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
I can explain my position simply and make sense. Can you?
A society is a cooperative endeavor. Such endeavors offer many advantages for the individual over the completely self-reliant lifestyle. However, they do require that the individual trade in some rights. For example, self-reliant Mountain Man, living in the wilderness, can poop anywhere he likes like the other animals, but if decides to go to town, he enters a cooperative endeavor in which he trades in his right to poop anywhere he likes for greater benefits.
So, in a cooperative society, when the inevitable conflicts between the rights of the individual and the welfare of the group happen, the group's welfare must prevail.
Your turn.
You don't get it. Based on my ideals I know what is the best possible solution for all of society and if you claims otherwise, you are wrong, because I say so even without making a reasoned argument. I don't have to make reasoned arguments, because I only have to say that you don't make reasoned arguments and that doesn't require reasoned arguments, because you are wrong and mean to me, because you demand that I make a reasoned argument. I don't like than and thus I win. Society is based on what I like and if you claim otherwise, you are so wrong, because society is based on what I like.
Now in all fairness I do the same in following sense. I base my view of society on what I like, but I like to include other humans POW and am willing to comprise and accept rights, duties and responsibilities as a member of society. So I am as subjective as everybody else, I just do my subjectivity differently than some other humans. They start with either solely the group or the individual. I try to balance that because as social animals we are individuals, who rely on others in part as the group.
Regards
Mikkel