It's All About Choices, Stupid

There is a phony conflict afoot that statists are fond of bringing up when they try to
discredit the free society. It is about the individual versus the community.
Champions of human liberty are often mis-characterized as denying the
significance of human community life. As if individualists advocated that people live
like hermits, apart from their fellows, in solitude.


Of course, individualists do not advocate anything of the kind. What they insist upon
is that human beings be understood as choosing their associations instead of
being simply herded into groups that some of them prefer to be part of.

Nearly everyone is better off living in the company of others. Hardly any human activity is carried out isolated from others and even when it appears like it, others are usually surrounding it, supporting it, helping it along and so forth. Solitary existence isn't the objective that individualists are promoting.

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