There are likely a few evil self-actualizers in history, but most individuators are good people doing God's work. Evil, clustered humanity and stupidity are associated. Goodness, individualism and intelligence are linked as well.
This being assumed, one cannot be a spiteful human being, wishing others ill luck or rejoicing when bad luck and loss hit them, and still claim to be an effective, active individuator. The genuine individuator is not cumbered by ill will. The individuator loves the self, and thereby this sense of inner well-being and contentedness yields a loving attitude, a well-wishing approach towards others, out there, in objective reality.
Let us consider that most ugly of emotions, jealousy. Few individuators are jealous of others, seeking what they have, have earned, or seek irrational control over who that loves one talks to, flirts with, or hangs out with.
The collectivist presumes that what others have: looks, talent, money and independence, etc.--these are attributes that are unearned benefits that those more fortunate others have unjustly accrued to themselves or have been too lucky in acquiring them. The collectivist concludes that she is entitled to rob the other of what they legitimately own. If the jealous person, is a murderous husband and his wife is flirting with another man, he may kill them both.
Again, jealous is a lie in feeling and action: it is the mistaken, collectivist conclusion that others need to be reigned in, and deprived of something that they do not deserve to keep.
We do not have the right to be jealous of anyone. We do not own them. We cannot deprive them of liberty, property, happiness and life itself. They are to be left unmolested. If they choose not to give us their allegiance, their money, their bodies to mate with, their liberty, their attention, then we have to accept that and go lead our own lives without retaliating.
I believe we grossly underestimate the enormous damage triggered among people by jealous neighbors. Let us be jealous of none, and sincerely wish all the best.
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