Comment by zajio1am
5 years ago
Well, there are three cases of patological societies, where one is forced to coexist with other people and unable to opt-out: school, prison and military service.
5 years ago
Well, there are three cases of patological societies, where one is forced to coexist with other people and unable to opt-out: school, prison and military service.
I'm not really seeing how that's bad.
You can't opt out of society in any significant regard, and without being forcefully exposed to very distinct facets of society we close ourselves off to our own little bubbles.
One cannot opt-out of society (short of moving to a different society), but one interact with society (as a whole) only through laws, contracts and formalized/ritualized interactions.
On personal level one does not interact with society, but with other persons. Probably tens or at most hundreds. And one can opt-out of each of such personal interaction (and perhaps find a differend set of persons to interact on personal level). And that is one of the most important personal freedoms.