X-Message-Number: 22520
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:16:40 +0200
Subject: Re: individual/group
From: David Stodolsky <>

On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 03:03  PM,  wrote:

> David Stodolsky wrote in part:
>
>> If the individual is the only reality, then there is no reason why
> anyone should accept dispute resolution, which typically requires
> compromise, and accepting the possibility of error or defeat (vaguely
> speaking<
>
> This, with the preceding reference, is just language fog. Nobody 
> claims that
> the group has no reality as we ordinarily understand reality.


"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, 
and there are families." Margaret Thatcher (The family doesn't function 
as a group, in the existential psychological sense.)

The type of Libertarianism dominant in the USA would probably classify 
Thatcher as a Statist. If the group is regarded as anything but a 
necessary evil, to be dispensed with as soon as the Libertarian Party 
comes to power, I haven't heard about it.

The question is whether the group is regarded as nothing more than an 
assembly of individuals and that by understanding the individuals you 
can predict the actions of the group.


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