<p>@ThatOneWeirdGuy</p>
<p>You keep saying you aren’t aiming for a perfect human, but your ideas do rely on it. The only way your theories work is in that perfect world. They fall apart without it, just like many others.</p>
<p>You flat out defined individualism completely wrong. I searched 4+ sites for a definition getting close to that. In fact, this thread comes up in google as the second source. Voluntarism and individualism are directly contradictory in my eyes. One asks that you do what you believe is morally right for all without any pressure to do so (a perfect human being, or rather a group/community/world) and the other encourages that one only make an interaction when it is beneficial of himself. The world simply does not consist of all win/win interactions. </p>
<p>Capitalism of all variations relies on people to choose morality or community over themselves, but gives them no support for it. A person could make all the moral and selfless choices and end up without even an apple to his name. I don’t know how many other ways I can put it, community and individualism are in clear contrast if not complete opposition.</p>
<p>At this point it’s starting to sound like “freedom above all else”. I think that’s something that’s pushed way too much in our culture. We entered society for two main reasons: physical protection and life stability. We form government to help with these two main things to this day. </p>
<p>It is also good to distinguish between types of freedom. Just because one does not have full fledged freedom, it doesn’t mean they’re living in terrible conditions. Are you being repressed by not being allowed to urinate in public?</p>
<p>I get that in a perfect world, yes, voluntarism would be nice because we would choose to do all the right things. But no matter how you raise them, some humans will always make less than ideal if not just plain wrong choices. And in a society with so much freedom, that’s incredibly dangerous.</p>