If They Could

 

We are all born evil which is altruism in action, and that means we will hunt and hurt loners, non-joiners, and individualists. We will compete with rival groups and tribes, war, and conflict with them even hate and kill them, but our deepest rage and desire to destroy and smash is reserved for loners--let alone great souls in our midst.

 

Groupists will be just as cruel and intolerant to loners as their legal code and moral code allows them to be. The altruists are as cruel to loners as they dare; they go as far as they can within their system of beliefs. And this is the moral altruists within the altruistic moral peoples, If they live within those limits, and have a persona moral compass their discrimination against loners will not be so vicious and unrelenting. It will be more sins of omission than commission.

 

If the group is a traditional, tribal, undeveloped community, individualism will be little known or tolerated.

 

In a modern society that is democratic, legal, and social herd reservations, held and nurtured by groupists against individualists in their midst, will be existent but relatively harmless. Still, even these need to be discouraged so that humans make do less evil in the world.

 

It is probably the case in the West, that as the increased emphasis on legal and social rewarding of sovereign individualism has increased, that attacks by groupists on individualists will be proportionally tame or even benign as capitalism, individual rights, the emphasis on democracy and reasoning all are factors mitigating natural mob prejudiced against loners. Freer, more secular societies with science and prosperity also promote toleration of practicing individualists and maverizers.

 

There have been claims of moral progress over the last few hundred years, and, despite exceptions and setbacks (the totalitarian collectivist and world wars of the 20^th century likely killed 150 million people) that are historically recorded and verified,  there has been progress morally, which is instantiated as the rise of tolerated individualism and lonerism is normalized, legitimated and allowed into society as the various altruist-collectivist codes are not quite to tight-knit famially, communally or nationally.

 

The degree of intolerance and evil directed against loners, depends on how much a society has evolved to allow for some level of individualism to publicly be accepted and allowed in its midst without being destroyed or exiled. If a mass movement arises in any society, no individualism will be tolerated.

 

Groupists are more emotional, passionate, fanatical, and naturally occurring (being individualistic is an unnatural learned set of behaviors); that which is fanatical is group sentiment, and is ordinarily hate-filled or evil. Its proponents declare that their doctrine is all good, all correct, all perfect and all beautiful, while the doctrine of rival tribes or individuals is all bad, all incorrect, all imperfect, and inherently ugly.

 

Outsiders and strangers are all enemies, without value whatsoever.

 

 The way the joiners keep evil and sinning popular and running things in this world is to tell each young person what her options are: either that she can be popular and belong, if she gives up her innate calling to maverize, to be free, truth-loving, independent and rational.

 

Or, if she rebels against the group, she will be driven out to be lonely, lost, and unpopular. She could have been popular or maverize but she cannot have both. The fanatical, groupist world view is that for each person, choice is an either/or set of options.

 

Woe betides those young persons that seek to make contact with the Good Spirits that are loners and individuators.

 

An artificial and moderate, moderated high civilization of the future will be unnatural and heavenly where individualists and great souls are allowed to be popular and still maverize, with no consequences for coming in and out of social arrangements as it pleases the maverizer. This both/and tolerance of maverizers that maverize and yet can be popular is a both/and high civilization that is conducive to the individual good and the collective good in that tolerant civilization.