Group Rights

 

If one is an altruist-collectivist, then one promotes group rights at the expense of individual rights.

 

Collectivists are more emotional, more fanatical, and less tolerant than are individualists who are more rational, more temperate and more tolerant.

 

Individualists will tolerate joiners in their midst without ordering them to convert to lonerism or be excommunicated from the community. Individualist will support some modest enjoyment of group rights, belonging and thinking of the community needs and requirements.

 

Collectivists seek complete power and control and they harbor no illusions about sharing power, wealth and the free market of ideas with rival groups, let alone tolerating and not wiping out rival individualists and individuators with their threatening expressing of individual rights.

 

Stephen Hicks notes that collectivists believe that life is nothing but endless power struggles between and among rival groups and tribes, and that conflict and contradiction are the substrata of all existence.

 

Individualists would likely counter-argue that individuals and groups can conflict but they can learn to talk, negotiate and tolerance, peace, trade and coexistence. Individualists will be rationalists for the most part holding with Objectivists that the Law of Identity and the Law of Non-contradiction hold sway—though I say they hold sway most of the time but not all the time.

 

If one is an egoist-individualist, then one highlights individual rights above group rights.