"Many people believe that a few individuals or small groups (family, friends, teachers, celebrities, for example) have caused them to think and behave in the way they do. Yet it is always society as a whole that defines us and our attitudes, not a few individuals."
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individuals, and groups... - Most people seem to think that trampling individual rights is OK if it is
"for the good of society as a whole." However,
society is but a large number of individuals, and how... - People in groups tend to agree on courses of action which as individuals,
they know are stupid... - You have many friends and very few
enemies... - Truly innovative ideas do not arise from groups of people,
but from individuals. When groups try to be creative... - Very few people are worshipping a golden calf,
yet many of them are buying it a pound at a time at... - The greatness of kings is made at the margin; the greatness of legislatures,
at the mean. That is to say, a monarch is judged by... - Dear Advertisers,
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