Individualism Vs Collectivism

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Collectivism won't work, simply because States cannot ask all the collective to decide in most matters, the "People" will be represented by a small number of persons that won't necessarily hold common sense, like in the hot coffee case. It was a jury of people and the State, represented by another person (in the name of People), that allowed such frivolous case to go on.
Everything reduces to the decisions of a few. It is our duty to elect well prepared-common sensed people to represent us.