put yourself in the shoes of an otherworldly observer and draw a rational philosophical conclusion on whether an individual (not you or me in particular) warrants that or not.

That is my point - that you can only make that judgement as an autonomous entity yourself - by imposing one's own judgements based on one's unique experiences.

Even a community is a amalgam of individuals that have chosen to live among others that share the same values, or one where one person, or a select few get to realize their own autonomy and manipulate others to do their bidding (which is what we have right now in the current two-party political climate in the U.S.). In many nations - one person makes all the decisions and they simply have acquired enough power to make everyone else fall in line with their wishes.

True political autonomy comes by abolishing political parties, imposing term limits on all politicians and taking money out of the campaign process.

whoa, whoa, whoa... where did all that come from? We're not on CNN here.

True political autonomy comes by abolishing political parties, imposing term limits on all politicians and taking money out of the campaign process. — Harry Hindu

Freedom, as modern politics defines it, is a comforting illusion — a linguistic placebo to pacify the governed.

It gives the individual a sense of sovereignty while binding him invisibly within the collective’s moral geometry.

Alam, T. B. (2025). The Illusion of Liberty: When Individual Rights Become Communitarian Grants [Zenodo]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17351527