Friedrich Hayek warned that "once society accepts the idea that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of a higher entity—such as society or the nation—most features of totalitarian regimes that horrify us follow of necessity.
From the collectivist standpoint intolerance and brutal suppression of dissent, the complete disregard of the life and happiness of the individual, are essential and unavoidable consequences of this basic premise, and the collectivist can admit this and at the same time claim that his system is superior to the one in which the selfish interests of the individual are allowed to obstruct the full realization of the ends the community pursues. "
This was written in 1944. How do you think it still applies today?
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