Individualism is for selfish egotistical arses..

Posted on: October 17, 2017 at 20:45:34 CT

We should strive to use government as a tool for the common good. That is what everyone has been fed their whole life.

It is a lie.

"This is the
constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact
that he cannot know more than a tiny part of the whole of society and
that therefore all that can enter into his motives are the immediate
effects which his actions will have in the sphere he knows. All the
possible differences in men's moral attitudes amount to little, so far
as their significance for social organization is concerned, compared
with the fact that all man's mind can effectively comprehend are the
facts of the narrow circle of which he is the center; that, whether he is
completely selfish or the most perfect altruist, the human needs for
which he can effectively care are an almost negligible fraction of the
needs, of all members of society."

". If we put it concisely by saying
that people are and ought to be guided in their actions by their inter-
ests and desires, this will at once be misunderstood or distorted into
the false contention that they are or ought to be exclusively guided by
their personal needs or selfish interests, while what· we mean is that
they ought to be allowed to strive for whatever they think desirable."

"From the awareness of the limitations of individual knowledge and
from the fact that no person or small group of persons can know all
that is known to somebody, individualism also derives its main prac-
tical conclusion: its demand for a strict limitation of all coercive or
exclusive power. Its opposition, however, is directed only against the
use of coercz'on to bring about organization or association, and not
against association as such. Far from being opposed to voluntary asso-
ciation, the case of the individualist rests, on the contrary, on the
contention that much of what in the opinion of many can be brought
about only by conscious direction, can be better achieved by the vol-
untary and spontaneous collaboration of individuals."

"true individualism
affirms the value of the family and all the common efforts of the small
community and group, that it believes in local autonomy and volun-
tary associations, and that indeed its case rests largely on the conten-
tion that much for which the coercive action of the state is usually
invoked can be done better by voluntary collaboration need not be
stressed further. "

FA Hayek - Individualism: True or False

Edited by TigerMatt at 21:27:58 on 10/17/17