Meddling or interfering. I feel I shouldn’t meddle in the lives of others. — NOS4A2
No man is an island, the individualist's actions inevitably affect others, Beyond some petty grab for control it is necessary to rein in the individual for the good of the collective. Devoid of any sense of obligation to the group a person quickly becomes detached, drifting without any firm anchor of reciprocality to caution them. — New2K2
What if he (the individual) regards "the collective" that attempts to rein him in as an immoral enterprise? — Tzeentch
I'm just thinking that to meet your needs we'd have to clear an area for you, which you could farm or hunt and gather or whatever, so you could live unbothered by others and without bothering them. There's a decreasing number of spaces of dwindling size and resources, unfortunately. Perhaps colonising another planet would suit you.
This sounds to me like meddling. Surely it cannot be that difficult to leave someone alone. — NOS4A2
In your lifetime? Doubtful. You'll be meddle-free.
Moving to Greenland and occupying land there is a problem because I’d have to contend with the Danish state’s monopolization of it all. I wager that had the Danes left the Inuit alone there wouldn’t be this problem. But they meddled and claimed the land as their own. — NOS4A2
No one would know. (Hence the location.)
Greenland has been autonomous for half a century or so (from unreliable memory).
Interdependence as a rationalization for behavior is rather unusual, probably because it's far too abstract an idea to be popularly adopted. There's no natural intuition to step back and look at the bigger picture, even though that could lead to a more fulfilling and sustainable outcome. So yeah, certainly couldn't rest with that alone. — praxis
Also we're naturally endowed with the capacity of reason and can override baser instincts and condition ourselves in particular ways. — praxis
I think the philosophical issue is that of the atomised individual ego becoming the locus of meaning in a universe that is now understood to be devoid of it. Whereas in earlier times, individuals were situated in a matrix of social relationships, underwritten by divine law, with the advent of modern liberalism, the individual conscience assumes more of the role or arbiter of values at the same time that the advent of modern science declared that these have no real foundation in objective reality. — Wayfarer
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