>What is it that your serious, most earnest self believes in?
>I believe in the Individuum. There is no collective brain. You alone have to make decisions based on logic and not trust others to do it for you. Your self is a set of value, a potential how to make it in the world. You mustn't be selfless and don't have pity, because that means you're doing something for your own disadvantage. You betray your set of values, your ideology and your "self" (=selfless).
individualism leads to dragon-kin and bronies. your personality is given form from your genetic predispositions by cultures and society, the more similar to yourself the people who help you with this are, the smoother and faster you develop.
i used to be a Randian, and I'm still a Nietzschean. Its clear though that this thinking leads people to simply fall apart as individuals, rendering them incapable of executing the reasoning or personal morality required to grow as a person. your genetic links are the infrastructure for your personality, without it you just have a floating castle, an imagined personality.
empathy exists for a reason, it isn't a fluke of evolution. its a gamble that helping someone will payoff later, a sort of deliberately lazy accounting among friends. the key here is that to benefit you by extension, they must be yours, and they must be or have the potential to become peers
>Collectivism has caused socialism, the problems of immigration, the lgbtq-thing, censorship, decline in character and consequently the cultural decadence.
on the contrary, a lot of this is derived from the enlightenment-era sanctity of the individual.
>can't generalize other races, must account for them individually.
>who are you to tell me where to put my dick, its my choice
naturally, after they assert that everything about them is 'their choice', they turn around and start talking about 'we' and 'our' duties to each other. its a kind of shell game, really