>>It doesn't. It is a matter of which is more important to you. The individual is more important to me. The collective is more important to John.
No, that's not it.The issue is that you seem to abhor the collective. For me, neither is to be demonized and the better model may alter case by case. Just as use of Tabasco can be considered dish by dish rather than slathering it on everything because Tabasco is always best.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
